LOVE is spoken of as though it were an actual.....thing.
The discourse surrounding "love" is a dishonest framing of an argument based on a non-context.
What do I mean?
LOVE is an emotion. It is the strongest possible positive emotion.
Where does it come from?
It comes from your values.
The emotional response of one person to the (perceived) virtues of another.
Emotional recognition of the embodiment of one's highest values of esthetics, character and integrity.
In short, what you personally value is what you personally respond to positively.
Emotions are not a source of information. They are a feedback of what you have accepted as true already!
The work of man’s mind is not automatic, his values, like all his premises, are the product either of his thinking or of his evasions.
A person chooses his values by a conscious process of thought—or accepts them by default, by subconscious associations, on faith, on someone’s
authority, by some form of social osmosis or blind imitation. Emotions are produced by man’s premises, held consciously or subconsciously, explicitly
or implicitly.
Bottom line?
If you don't ACTIVELY develop your values you get them passively. The result will be like getting your wardrobe by hand-me-downs. Your sense of
fashion will not reflect YOU but UPON you. Your emotions will follow your hand-me-down values and won't fit your personal needs.
YOU WILL FALL IN LOVE with the WRONG person because your values aren't YOURS based on who you are and what you are.
LOVE is an echo and not a voice.