Is “love” really love when it is selfish?
“You’re mine,” we hear supposed lovers say to
each other.
Possessive.
“You are what I want. You belong to ME.”
And then we wonder—actually, we DON’T think
enough to wonder—why the relationships we have often become destructive,
hurtful wrecks that disrupt and sometimes shatter lives.
A selfish society of individuals functions
poorly in relationships. A society of
people concerned with trying to make others’ lives better, on the other hand,
would be transformative, both at the personal level and the societal level.
Thoughts that came to me when listening to the
David Gates’ and Bread’s song “Diary.”
The last two lines make the song.
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