• idkwhatimdoing@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Cliche, but love is the only thing that feels good and worthwhile 100% of the time. Excitement, thrills, ambition, sensory pleasure, all of these and everything else feel wasted or actively negative if you’re not in the right context for them. But there’s never a time that a genuine feeling of shared love feels bad, whether you’re in the best or worst or most random situation.

      Might sound like a cop out, but I’d argue that any love that does feel bad is actually more desire than love. Just my take, but I know philosophers have much more thought out ones.

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        1 year ago

        I mean, that’s a frequent topic discussed at my church (we study a lot of Indian philosophy, it’s not normal lol) - the idea of the difference between love and attachment. The idea that love is something that happens from a place of freedom, not obligation, for example. Where attachment is something that feels compelled.