Love, Hate (+Hurt) III

Ms Ng had said that humans are all created with the capacity to love. We also want to be loved. The need to love and the need to be loved is there. I'd said in "Love, (Hurt,) Hate": "To love because of a need implies that the love is tempered with a selfishness." It would seem then that it is because of a self-seeking, self-serving interest that humans give love. Ms Ng said that sometimes, when we don't get the right love, even bad love will do.

We hear stories of the lonely, desolate, distressed, depressed, depraved breaking down and crying when they say they experience God's love. Isn't this a case of "when we don't get the right love, even bad love will do"? Any kind of love will suffice for humans, even bad love. Bad love is sad. To have seen the ugliness of this world and then be touched by a love, any kind of love-it is natural that humans will be overwhelmed by emotions. It need not necessary be God's love.

To walk to the end of the spectrum of extreme emotions and then come back, it is strange how apart from touching and reaching out to the/a soul, this/a love can hurt. Guess that's why the wretched cry when they say they experience God's love. Because they feel hurt simultaneously. It is incomprehensible how a love can soothe while bringing with it a sense of bitter(sweet)ness, sorrow, pain and anguish.