Thanks for the input, a lot of this writing is figuring out what love is to me. Where I ended up was that to care for someone or something else’s welfare is to love them/it and then using love as a basis for allocating resources at my disposal (I ended up going down a rabbit hole on this one).
I found this to be a more comprehensive model and truer to my experience of love than the way I’ve seen it commonly referred to in media where it is almost a mind trap of ‘obsessive thoughts’ about another (much like lust but not necessarily tied to sex).
Thanks for the input, a lot of this writing is figuring out what love is to me. Where I ended up was that to care for someone or something else’s welfare is to love them/it and then using love as a basis for allocating resources at my disposal (I ended up going down a rabbit hole on this one).
I found this to be a more comprehensive model and truer to my experience of love than the way I’ve seen it commonly referred to in media where it is almost a mind trap of ‘obsessive thoughts’ about another (much like lust but not necessarily tied to sex).