63. what is love?

The opposite of fear is love. To love is to be without fear on your unpredictable journey through is life. It is an indefatigable belief in whoever bears the object of your affection. That they will always show up for you, and never doubt who you aspire to be. Most of us gain our concept of love from our parents, but their methods of love may have been expressed more like fear than love. Their anxiety and worry could have held us back from trying new things  because it meant we might take a different path or be something different than what was intended. In that sense, fear looks, feels, and sounds more like control. Love on the other hand, feels like unquenchable fulfillment. It is unconditional understanding and acceptance. It is a willingness to trust that, together, things will always work out. It is unconstrained and unbridled. Love is just “being” in the moment, with no past or future worries. It is freedom.