Love: Not A Thing To Be Asked For, But A Thing To Be Felt Comments

Love is not charity to be begged for with an outstretched hand, nor a bargain struck through pleas and promises. It is a pull of the soul—like barren land that blooms when rain arrives of its own accord. As Rumi suggests, love does not come when we demand it; it arrives when the heart is open enough to receive it. What is begged for is never truly ours. What arrives freely belongs to the soul.

When the space between two people is free of pressure, when intentions are clear, when one chooses the other from the depths of their being—love breathes. But where obligation creeps in, where emotional chains tighten, love begins to suffocate. Forced affection withers, like a flower scorched by too much fertilizer.
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