When you love a person, you put that individual's needs above your own needs. I think sacrifice is a big part of it. Sometimes loving a person means telling them "no", as with a child that needs discipline. Sometimes loving a person means saying "goodbye," as with a spouse that no longer loves you and wants to spread his or her wings. Love is not always an easy thing, but it is the best thing that we humans have going for us and it is really our best and only hope. It makes life worth living.
I remember hearing a peace corp volunteer saying how many of the starving children in the country he was working in were more interested in being held and hugged by the aid workers than they were in being fed. They chose love over food.
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