....love of one's self that is. What is love? True love? I don't think anyone has ever been able to come with a definition that you can pick up and truly examine. Maybe this is because love is an emotion and probably should stay as an emotion instead of being explained using logic. True love is an undying bond that cannot be supressed....does not evaporate and cannot be contained.

My take on it is that "falling" in love is not love. Love is a conscious decision to care for someone as you would yourself.....not less than you would yourself. To me, falling out of love implies you were never TRULY IN love.

Our eyes, ears and hearts are at constant odds. Though it is possible for our eyes and our ears to agree with one another....the heart is quick to disagree with both of them. Love allows the heart to take over....makes us vulnerable to inner pain. This vulnerability is a way of saying "I trust you with my heart to do as you wish". Kind of scary isn't it?...especially when one person's heart is wide open and the other is still protecting themself from harm while hurting the one who loves them.

Love is NOT blind...on the contrary...it sees only what it WANTS to see...and ignores that which doesn't fit into it's intended reality. Loving yourself is good practice for loving someone else...but when we fail to step outside of ourselves....we may say we "love"....and this maybe true,...but the love is more for ourselves than the one worthy of our love.

Learn to love