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.