1243: Love isn’t quite a feeling
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/05/28
It’s less about a pleasure,
a feeling,
an emotion,
because,
it’s not a chocolate cake,
a reaction,
a physiological welling up.
Because it’s not about satisfaction,
a situational mirroring interiorly,
or a slow or fast bodily release.
It includes those,
but it is not, those.
It’s more about a state of being,
a presence.
The fact that they listened,
that they looked when you pointed,
that they made a behavioural adjustment,
that they respected a clear, “No, not tonight,”
that they gave space and communicated gently but firmly.
Love is one essence of life, because it’s being alive to the moments,
of life.
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