now before you laugh or make fun of me, or just think I'm weird,

let me tell you what I mean by that first.

I don't mean it in some fake, warm and fuzzy, sentimental kind of way.

And I'm not saying it just to be nice, or to look good, or to get you to like me.

What I mean is, at the very least, I only want what is good for you.

At the very most, I mean, i'll give myself, my life, in any way I can, for your good.

And I don't care how I feel, or how I look, or what Im getting out of it,

or if I feel like it or not.

Love doesn't go this way.

Only this way.

And who are you?

Well you could be anyone.

my friend, my family, my spouse, person I like.

well thats easy, anyone can love the people they like.

What about the person I don't like, the person who doesn't like me, the person nobody likes,

what about the person I totally disagree with, the person who's completely different from

me, there person I want to hate, the person everyone hates, the person who repulses me.

DOESN'T matter.

Love doesn't pick and choose who to love, just like the sun doesn't pick and choose

who to shine on, it just shines.

And what is your good?

Well it's all those little things that are gonna help us find the one thing that we all

want, that we're all searching for,

happiness.

as much as we can find here in this life, but more importantly, the full happiness that

we can only find in the next life.

and I'll love you no matter what you do,

but that doesn't mean I'm going to love everything you do.

Love has to be tough, sometimes even fierce.

If you do anything that's gonna harm, impede, poison, delay or divert your good,

or the good of anyone else's,

I have to stand against it, not you.

Even if it's awkward, even if it's unpopular, even if it's gonna turn you against me,

for a little while.

But even when love is tough,

Love is always patient.

That's why we have a whole lifetime.

love is always gentle, kind, tender, loving,

never pushy, preachy, pointing fingers, rigid or mean.

and I don't care what you've done, or how big you've screwed up, or how vast our

differences are, or if your life is a giant, global sized disaster.

love is bigger than all these things.

And I don't care how worthless, or flawed, or unlovable, or insignificant, you think

you may be.

love breaks through all these.

and if you get hurt, which we do,

or get into trouble, which we do,

or get beat up by the world, which we will.

and you're tired, and angry, and bitter, and miserable, and scared, LIKE THE REST OF US,

and feel like you're, drifting all alone in a sea of, suffering…

ill suffer with you.

and if we disagree and get into those epic fights, which we will,

and even if you betray me, and laugh at me, and make me look stupid,

and walk away a thousand times,

Ill forgive you, a million times,

because nothing that could ever happen in this tiny little universe,

could ever be more important to me than you.

Not even myself.

This is what I mean when I say I love you…

but this is not my love…

my love is weak, and self-centered at best.

this is his love.

and he said, he commanded,

go out there and love one another as I loved you.

so I'll say it say again even though I know i'm gonna fail at it a million times today.

[I love you]