Love Commands Review Love Commands Review As we approach and celebrate Valentine ' s Day , many of us are planning and preparing to celebrate love , but do we really know what that is ? What is love ? My brother summed up the answer to this perennial question best : Love is a verb . No , it ' s not just a morpheme used to make a syntactical structure grammatical , but an action . So what does it mean to love ? Love is acting selflessly , doing what is best for others , and giving unconditionally .
For eons we ' ve tried to understand what love is , but we ' ve gotten stuck thinking that love is a noun - an object or person to be possessed . No one can ever own another ' s feelings , choices , or actions . Love is not something that can be bought , earned , or taken . Love is a choice to let go of our selfish egos , and live with compassion and kindness . Selfishness and love are like oil and water . They just can ' t mix .
Many of us go through our daily lives saying : we love this , that , him , or her ... but then turn around and not take care of and disrespect those very things and people . What we really meant to say was that we like , desire , lust for , and wish to possess those things and people . The drives of the ego usually end up damaging and hurting others in some way . That is not love .