The preference of being liked or probably loved
By Stanley Collymore
There’s a world of difference between liking
and loving someone, in case you didn’t know this.
Liking is a spontaneous and variable reaction
to what you see and appreciate about that
particular individual and, accordingly
at that precise moment in time, are
personally empathetic with. But a condition,
too, that can be markedly swayed or even
be radically changed by prevailing or
even unpredicted circumstances.
Love, however, is much more
fundamental in its normal
application, draws on
deeper reserves of
appreciation and usually dims,
although not always so and
the occasional obsession
aside, when it’s totally
completely bereft of
all of reciprocation.
© Stanley V. Collymore
21 September 2019.
Author’s Remarks:
They’re both outside the purview of the individual or persons who are targeted but, even so, one would be wholly dishonest were they to categorically state that neither of these two human emotions did not matter to them fundamentally, or that personally they were above such feelings.
