On Unconditional Love
What we all want and none of us can give

Like so many lies, unconditional love is a shared deception, equally ruinous to self as to one’s beloved. Those who believe they possess unconditional love for another may find themselves wasting a life, desiccating the flower of youth and spoiling the fruits of their effort, for the sake of one who, without the slightest willingness to develop or aid…