Love and desire

Love is about feeling security,
having stability and safety,
being known, valued, respected or protected,
being a couple and having togetherness.

Whereas Desire is about feeling passion,
having fascination and yearning,
being wanted, taken, devoured or consumed,
being an individual and having separateness.

I'm shaking my life up a bit and looking at issues much more closely. Not that I'll abandon anything for I know that I'm only a poor example of an human being. Not denegrating anything about myself either, just a mid-life reassessment. I do love, a subject matter that I have posted here on before, and I do desire. The issue is that they need to be looked at separately.

Key words for me personally on the subject are on the side of love the being known, valued, respected. I'll leave security, being protected and even being a couple out of it because I do feel that if one doesn't attain the first then the second won't be achieved either. On the desire side I do feel that the key words are being wanted, consumed and being an individual. I'd even go so far that true love is solely about respecting the other as an individual whilst still hungrily wanting to become one with that person. It's a case of both respect and want alright.

I like to eat my cookie, so there 😋