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> I love you now, as you are, as a person and not anything you do or have or appear to be What is left of a "person" to me if excluding those?
by smallnix 4y ago
> I love you now, as you are, as a person and not anything you do or have or appear to be
What is left of a "person" to me if excluding those?
- easygenes 4y agoPerhaps you are ascribing a more holistic view to the idea of what someone “does”. I think OP was referring more to a person’s roles or what they are known for. Loving someone for, e.g., what they believe in, what they stand for, and how they treat people are examples of love that stems from a deeper understanding of a person’s values, habits, and personality than just loving them one-dimensionally for their wealth or a particular thing they’re well known for. I think that’s what they’re getting at.
- green_on_black 4y agoSo, having more conditions is apparently less conditional?
- eurasiantiger 4y agoLoving someone for something and loving someone if something are two different things.
- RajT88 4y agoWhat, indeed. Share your perspective.
- smallnix 4y agoIt is as easygenes put it: > Perhaps you are ascribing a more holistic view to the idea of what someone “does”. I think nothing is left for another person to love if you take away everything they do, have and how they appear. Because that is all you can ever know about another person. But I now understand what you wrote as "I love you now, as you are, as a person and not just any one particular thing you do" and to that I agree. Edit: I think I misread "anything" as "everything"