This stumble across rather makes me wish my quotes file supported wizard photos, lol
The sentiment largely captures how I’ve always felt about the people I care about. It nails the concept, so perfectly. It doesn’t attach anything to it, it just expresses it, so beautifully for what it is.
There’s two quotes that I’ve kept filed away that I think summarize the emotion better than most. The line in Fool’s Rush In where Isabel tells Alex that “Love is a gift not an obligation,” and part of the Celestine Chronicles where Terrance Mack concludes, “Love is to want for the happiness of another.” At the most elemental level, both quotes capture what love is without giving some kind of a type or meaning to it, and that’s oh so rare in my experience.
Over the years, I just haven’t found better ways to describe the concept. I do suppose though, I should put the URL to that video in the quotes file somewhere, it’s easier to find than searching my journal, lol.