This post is because @dicentra asked what love is to us in her BLOG. I posted an earlier version, but it felt very incomplete, so this is the rewrite.
Essentially after thinking and drafting in Notes, I thought of this scene from the end of Life On the Road (2016, SPOILER). It was a spinoff from the original UK version of The Office, featuring...
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dicentra:
The things he says in this, like "I couldn't have lived without trying, and I did that." "Everything works out doesn't it? You think you want one thing, and then you realise you needed something else." "Life's a struggle, with little beautiful surprises, that make you want to carry on, through all the shit, until the next beautiful surprise." Then at the end "I take everyday situations and then I look at them from a different perspective." Are ALL things I've been saying lately. š„¹ That's kinda crazy. You're right that his love for his dream and not giving up was love. It's a labour of love, that's what I keep saying about my videos and my craving to help everyone that supports me. I want to support them and their dreams, too. I really think that, happiness is found in the little things, like the way that kids innocently see the world, because it's not a world full of darkness to them, it's a world full of endless creation. The beauty in the world has been there all along, you just have to look. That silent support you mention, is such a love language. "I'm going to be there for you, even if you don't even realise or care." It's such a selfless form of love and heartbreakingly beautiful. Remember you mentioned "Random acts of kindess" before? It's much like that, isn't it? It's caring for someone even when they don't know you exist, and knowing you'll never get anything from it, but doing it anyway. Interest, attention and affirmation are things that I think most people are desperately seeking. Everyone just wants to be seen and heard. I hope that everyone has or finds that type of love in their life. ā¤ļø
eminerale:
This response in itself really draws out the key and resonant themes and elements of what the scene means to me and how it applies to our lives š©µ thank you @dicentra for sharing your thoughts and going deep into the significance of these ideas about love.
