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Figured I should start actually using this again...
You don't need an excuse to love someone or to be kind.
We seek out pleasure and loving someone and being kind to others both give pleasure. It's ok to do it simply because you can and you want to.
One of the biggest tricks ever played on us by those in power is to make loving someone and caring for others a transaction with balances that must be observed, treating loving others as a means of gaining something.
I feel that this bleeds into how we love ourselves. We have to justify loving and being kind to ourselves and are so quick to put ourselves down.
I hope, one day, we don't have to talk about love in a way that has a cost. I like loving recklessly.
Breaking bread with others is an honor, not a favor.