What is Love?

General question here: How do you show love?

seems like a simple question and yet honestly i couldnt tell you my answer at this moment. i guess i show love by being kind, being nice, and you know all that good stuff. yet it seems like everyone misses some aspect of love in however they show it.

i mean think about it. you show love either because you love the person and want them to reciprocate the love, or because they love you and you in turn feel obligated to love them back. is this wrong though, i mean what would pure love look like? im saying love that didnt care whether they were loved or being loved back. i think this kind of love would change the world. but the question still remains, how do i show this kind of love?

well i mean the simple answer would most likely be jesus correct?

i show this love by showing jesus, and yet i feel like its a cop out to say well just show jesus and you show love. because i mean its a good thing to say and we get away with saying it a lot, yet im not sure i have ever met someone who 24/7/365 showed jesus. i think that it is pretty much impossible to do every single minute of every single hour of every single day. i mean we are human and we fail. so how do we show a love that is impossible for us to show?

honestly this blog has been on my mind for like 3 weeks now. and i have been wondering, does saying i love you really mean anything? is it just something we say because we feel obligated in some way or another to say it?  i wonder what other people would say love is?

i have read a lot about love and how to love. i think love does free us, it frees us to be who we were meant to be in a real sense. im pretty sure love is one of the purest things on earth as well, well at least love in its true sense, not the love that we see on tv or the love that is in the movies. i think the way that we can begin to love better, is to love ourselves. you would be surprised how many people struggle with loving themselves. shoot i am one of those people. but i figure if i can love me then it doesnt matter if other people love me, and if they do love me then hurrah. love is one of the greatest things that anyone can ever experience, yet there are so many people who will never be able to experience true love. this is a sad fact.

go love someone. go love yourself. wake up to the realization that jesus loves you (and no thats not a cliche). maybe then we can stop talking about changing the world, and actually go out and change the world.

-Andrew