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As children, our hearts are small, full to the brim with our love for our parents, siblings, relatives and pets. We seek no love from others outside our family circle because all the love we need is there for us. But as we grow, so too does our heart. Soon, the love we have for our family is not enough to fill it. We go to school, make friends, develop love for them and again our heart is filled. Upon reaching teenage hood however, our heart has outgrown even the love we have for our friends. We begin to seek a stronger love. We develop this stronger love for an individual that has influenced us; we become braver and seek for this love in return. If it is returned, our heart is again filled with this newer stronger love, if not, our wounded heart becomes smaller for a time and the love we have for our family and friends quells the desire for a stronger love. But our heart recovers quickly and grows again; soon we seek again the stronger love. It is the way we are. We love, we lose and we love again. We may not find a companion to love and be loved by for a very long time, maybe not even at all, but our heart continues to grow with us. We seek the love for a soul mate, we seek the love for a child and a grandchild and a great grandchild. And of all those we have felt love for in our lives, we may forget some; those who we do not want to remember, those who have hurt us and those for whom our love was not true. It is rare to forget someone for whom we have felt love and who felt love for us in return, but that is the triviality of mankind. To be truly human, we will remember all those for whom we have felt love, even those who have hurt us, and we will feel love for them still. It may not be as passionate or as urgent or as needing as it was before, but the love will still be there, because love lasts a lifetime. One day, probably for most when we are very old, we will learn what it means to be truly human, we will learn how to be truly human. All our days we seek the love of others, and to achieve this, we give our love. But that is not the way it was meant to be. A true human, one who is all that we could be, is one who loves, not for the sake of receiving love and being filled, but for the sake of loving and the filling of others.

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As children, our hearts are small, full to the brim with our love for our parents, siblings, relatives and pets. We seek no love from others outside our family circle because all the love we need is there for us. But as we grow, so too does our heart. Soon, the love we have for our family is not enough to fill it. We go to school, make friends, develop love for them and again our heart is filled. Upon reaching teenage hood however, our heart has outgrown even the love we have for our friends. We begin to seek a stronger love. We develop this stronger love for an individual that has influenced us; we become braver and seek for this love in return. If it is returned, our heart is again filled with this newer stronger love, if not, our wounded heart becomes smaller for a time and the love we have for our family and friends quells the desire for a stronger love. But our heart recovers quickly and grows again; soon we seek again the stronger love. It is the way we are. We love, we lose and we love again. We may not find a companion to love and be loved by for a very long time, maybe not even at all, but our heart continues to grow with us. We seek the love for a soul mate, we seek the love for a child and a grandchild and a great grandchild. And of all those we have felt love for in our lives, we may forget some; those who we do not want to remember, those who have hurt us and those for whom our love was not true. It is rare to forget someone for whom we have felt love and who felt love for us in return, but that is the triviality of mankind. To be truly human, we will remember all those for whom we have felt love, even those who have hurt us, and we will feel love for them still. It may not be as passionate or as urgent or as needing as it was before, but the love will still be there, because love lasts a lifetime. One day, probably for most when we are very old, we will learn what it means to be truly human, we will learn how to be truly human. All our days we seek the love of others, and to achieve this, we give our love. But that is not the way it was meant to be. A true human, one who is all that we could be, is one who loves, not for the sake of receiving love and being filled, but for the sake of loving and the filling of others.