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The Evolution of Love
by Michelle Montoro
This article is inspired by everyone I have ever known in my lifetime and everything and everyone I have ever loved and will ever love.
The concept of love is a tricky one, isn’t it?
It changes throughout time with each and every relationship, with every new encounter and experience in our lives. As we grow and evolve and change, our entire understanding of the meaning of this word changes.
It changes as the context changes. It changes as the object changes. It changes as the subject changes. It is both subjective and objective while at the same time being neither. It just keeps changing until we either begin to take it completely for granted and start tossing it around like air or it becomes this powerful idea that elicits fear in the strongest of people. When you start to really process the meaning of the word love, you can be left totally confused or completely enlightened.
I have had the above definition of love hanging in a very prominent place in my home for the past 9 years. The printed canvas has traveled with me to three different homes in two different states and it has always been designated to a place of honor. But yet, I never really looked at it. I never really read it.
