Love

Really, this post is about love. I read the most amazing response to the question "What role does love, human contact, play in your life now?" asked of a 94 year old woman, Estelle. She answers: "Well, my theory about love is that being loved is not the important part about love. It's loving that's important. I don't know how to make you understand that. Being loved ... is sort of pampering your ego. You're not growing in any way when somebody pampers you and loves you and adores you. ... I don't know what hormones it stimulates, but the feeling of loving somebody, it's so enlarging. And you will do anything for the person you love. That's when you grow, when you begin to submerge yourself into loving that other person. So that's the important part about love for me, is loving, not being loved." How beautiful is that? It's from the program "Living Old" that Frontline ran few years back.