The preference of being liked or probably loved

By Stanley Collymore

There’s a world of difference between liking

and loving someone, in case you didn’t know this.

Liking is a spontaneous and variable reaction

to what you see and appreciate about that

particular individual and, accordingly

at that precise moment in time, are

personally empathetic with. But a condition,

too, that can be markedly swayed or even

be radically changed by prevailing or

even unpredicted circumstances.

Love, however, is much more

fundamental in its normal

application, draws on

deeper reserves of

appreciation and usually dims,

although not always so and

the occasional obsession

aside, when it’s totally

completely bereft of

all of reciprocation.

© Stanley V. Collymore

21 September 2019.

Author’s Remarks:

They’re both outside the purview of the individual or persons who are targeted but, even so, one would be wholly dishonest were they to categorically state that neither of these two human emotions did not matter to them fundamentally, or that personally they were above such feelings.