love unconditionally.

Some days I still struggle to understand how God can love someone like me- how my friends can love me even in the hard times… but I am growing to see that unconditional love isn’t for the perfect- it cannot be unconditional if there isn’t something that could challenge it.

and the “worth doing” tab on this goal is pretty funny. “75 out of 78 people (96%) think this is worth doing.”
apparently, there’s 3 people don’t think this is worth it. this means they apparently did not do it right. there’s no way you can love unconditionally and have it fail you miserably, so yeah.

and the more i think about it, the more this goal should be made more specific. because loving one person unconditionally and loving the entire world unconditionally is very, VERY different indeed.

“y dd i nver luk who’s bsids me? y dd i nver c d luv dt u gve 2 me? y dd i luk 4 som1 to luv me f ders a prson wo cn luv me UNCONDITIONALLY!”

In my life whom I love incredibly. Incredibly. For nearly two years we dated, then, slowly this Spring, we felt like we weren’t in it as much. It wasn’t so much the love, as the direction of our lives (pretty standard in college, I guess). This is my number one focus on unconditional love. Romantic love is one of the least unconditional around (generally- I totally make room for those amazing couples who transcend this problem). I still admire this person, think she’s incredible, smart, beautiful, talented, destined for a wonderful life. And it’s hard not to detach because we’re not officially in a relationship anymore. But can’t I still love her? Can’t it transform into something I still hold for her, without expecting us to be together? That’s very difficult. I don’t think I’m very close to learning how. By the time I do, we might become strangers. Who knows?

i have recently fallen in love with a woman. some may say that im nuts. some may tell me ive gone off my rocker! i say why not!? she is to me so beautiful honest fun loving and caring its drives me batty!!! But i also love the man ive been with for a year and a half! even tho he has hurt me over and over again. simply by not be a good and honest person! i have the best qualityies i could ask of a woman in her and half of the best qualitites i could ask for in a man from him. but how do i divide my heart and choose. how do i love her unconditionally while still loving him!!??

How much you love someone should not depend on what mood you are in…if you are really in love, nothing else matters.

I hope to practice genuine unconditional love…not love that rewards my ego, but true love to others, whether I like them, whether I agree with them, whether they drive badly without turn signals or refuse to recycle or say “seen” instead of “saw”... to accept others as unique spirits created in perfection—as opposed to the sum of their personality traits. To stop judging. Of course, this is one of those goals that falls outside of “good goal making”—no way to measure success. Still, it is what I want to be in this life. A source of love.

to love unconditionally is like trying to forgive the world of its flaws and love it anyway. usually that’s considered hard to do with ONE special person (in our world of quickie marriages and quickie divorces), but with the world? goodness. patience and love and compassion galore.

there just seem to be some people i can’t empathize with, because i don’t think i can actually drop my IQ down to their level to follow their lines of thought. >< i’m saying this in a lighthearted joking manner, of course.

I always thought love was just giving and receiving. You take what you give. I never thought that it was fair to give and give. The man I love is no longer in my life in a romantic way. I have given more than I thought I could in the past year and a half. He has not always given back what he should. I know what it is like to love without condition. At times that I thought I could love no more, God gave me the strength to give more love and support to him. He entered rehab after we broke up. I continued to support him and love him. I will love him always no matter who he becomes and wherever he goes. I have learned that often the people that NEED our love don’t deserve it. They repeatedly hurt you, take advantage, and run away. This is all the more reason to love them. they need it. It is only fair that we return the unconditional love that we receive from God to all of the people around us. No matter what.

not happening.