“True Love” means total, absolute, unconditional, mutual responsibility towards each other!
Question from the Internet:
“Do people confuse love with responsibility?”
At this stage we are very confused about “love”.
What we consider “love” is an egotistic, selfish state when we feel a very strong attraction towards someone, as long as we receive pleasure, some kind of reward or at least a positive feedback from “loving” another.
Some call this “love” fish-love, as in “I love fish since it tastes good”. And when it doesn’t taste good, when I don’t receive pleasure from the state, then I can’t “love” any longer.
The closest example we have for “true love” in our life is the mother’s love towards her children, especially after they are born. Due to the absolute, all-conquering responsibility towards her children the mother “as if” disappears into serving them. She doesn’t feel sickness, tiredness, hunger until she is certain that she fulfilled her children with everything they need, especially when they are sick.
Even this love is not “true love” though, since the mother is instinctively obligated to love her children, she feels them as her own parts.
“True love” is a state of absolute, all-conquering responsibility, unconditional service towards others, when there is nothing egocentric, selfish, that compels me to love another.
This is the “love” Nature’s balance and homeostasis - life depends on - is based on. This is the absolute, mutual responsibility through which the cells, organs of our own biological body connect and cooperate to keep us healthy, surviving.
And this is the “love” - absolute, unconditional mutual responsibility, mutual guarantee - we need to learn, acquire towards each other in order to build a Human society that becomes compatible with Nature and deserve the right to survive in it.