Agape

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))["How are you?"] How do you [[respond?]]

* (text-colour:green)[I'm [[good]]] * (text-colour:red)[ I'm [[okay]]] * (text-colour:grey)[ [[Eh]]]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))[[Really?->Eh]]

[[Why->Eh]]'s that?

I could be [[better]]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))Sometimes we lie to others, but more importantly we lie to [[ourselves.]]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))Sometimes we lie to others, but more importantly we lie to [[ourselves.->Start]] Would you [[like]] to come with me?

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))Sometimes we lie to others, but more importantly we lie to [[ourselves.->Start]] Would you like to come with me? Do [[you]] like my dress?

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))Sometimes we lie to others, but more importantly we lie to ourselves. Would you like to come with me? Do you like my dress? Do you like me [[back?]]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))Sometimes we lie to others, but more importantly we lie to ourselves. Would you like to come with me? Do you like my dress? Do you like me back? Simple [[questions,]] revealing [[answers.]]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))You are put to the [[test.->answers.]] Did you click every [[word->better]] in this story? Or are you just trying to get by?

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))Without trust. (live: 2s)[No honesty.] (live: 4s)[No love.] (live: 6s) [How can you [[love]] someone you don't [[trust?]]] (live: 8s) [How can you [[trust]] someone you don't [[love?]]]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow)) (text-style:"emboss")[[[Eros.]]] (text-style:"blurrier")[[Philia. ]] (text-style:"strike")[Agape.]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))Faith. (live: 2s) [Complete confidence.] (live: 4s) [No shadow or doubt.] (live: 6s) [Rawness.] (live: 8s) [Surrender.] Take the [[leap.->love]]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))I [[believe]] you.

[[What]] is love?

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))It's dying to oneself for the good of the [[other.]]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))The [[beloved.]]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))The lover and beloved [[sacrifice]] their very selves.

"Actions speak louder than [[words."]]

"I love [[you."]]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))How do I know you're not [[lying]] about that [[too?->better]]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))Because I [[trust]] you.

Why [[would]] you believe me?

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))Isn't that [[trust?]]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))Do you love me[[??]] (mouseover-replace: "love me") [lie to me]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))Sometimes we lie to others, but more [[importantly]] we lie ourselves. (mouseover-replace: "ourselves") [to the beloved]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))You have to tell the truth to love. (live: 2s)[Agape love. Self-giving love.] (live: 4s)[Love is not simply an emotion. Anger is an emotion. Joy is an emotion.] (live: 6s) [Love is a choice. Love is daily self-giving.] (live: 8s) [Can you think of a [[song]] that doesn't deal with love?]

(text-colour:white)[Eros?] (click-replace: "Eros?") [(text-colour:yellow)[Anything that makes you want to take a [[picture]]]]

(text-colour:white)[[Philadelphia?]]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))Erotic love. I love pizza. I love Nat King Cole. I love sunsets. And butterflies and San Francisco and Top Gun and travelling the world and the [[L.A. Dodgers.]]

There's gotta be more to it than the [[L.A. Dodgers!]]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))You're right again, little one. Eros is attraction. It's what attracts us to sunsets, to San Francisco, to the L.A. Dodgers. What attracts Mommy and [[Daddy.]]

Will I experience eros? (click-replace: "eros")[love at first sight] Will I fall in love with a prince? (click-replace: "fall in love with a prince") [find someone who likes me back] Will someone love me that way too? (click-replace: "love me that way too") [watch the L.A. Dodgers with me too] [[Oh, won't you tell me?]]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))Of course, but there could be [[more.]]

(text-colour:white)[[More?]]

(text-colour:yellow)[You could [[stay with eros]] or you could [[advance.]]]

(text-colour:yellow)[One day, you'll hate pizza. One day you'll get tired of sunsets. You'll be sick of watching Top Gun. And be disappointed at the L.A. Dodgers.] (text-colour:yellow)[It's not lasting] (text-colour:white)[*That's [[okay with me]].] (live: 7s)[* I want [[more->advance.]]]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow)) Next up, [[philia.]]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))Ok. You are allowed to stick with eros. Crushes, but no relationship. No through the thick and thin. Pictures, but no reality. Attraction. Eros. One definition of love.

(enchant:?page,(text-colour:yellow))(text-style:"wavy-strike")[[Eros.]] (text-style:"outline")[[Philia. ]] (text-style:"shadow")[Agape.]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))No, but close. Philidelphia: The city of [[brotherly love.]] Philia is friendship. There is more loyalty.

Like me and [[Cody?]]

(enchant:?page,(text-colour:yellow))Yes. You are brother and sister. But philia is friendship. You happen to be friends. But sometimes siblings aren't friends. Friends are tied (mouseover-replace: "tied")[bonded in time] in loyalty. It's much harder (mouseover-replace: "much harder")[almost impossible if true friendship,] to break this bond. You and Cody are best friends (mouseover-replace: "best friends")[brother and sister who would die for each other]. You fight (mouseover-replace: "fight") [cry], you love (mouseover-replace: "love") [get annoyed], you laugh (mouseover-replace: "laugh")[play], but through it all you stay together. That's friendship (mouseover-replace: "friendship ")[love: you stick through everything together, the good, the bad, and the ugly]. You help each other. You stand up for each other. (live: 15s)[But still friendship could be [[broken.]]]

Then why be friends at all? Why have erotic love? Why have philia? If it's all meant to break? I just don't get it. How can you [[win?]] Won't you just [[lose?]]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow)) You can't go through thick and thin and have everlasting love, if you don't start somewhere. Love is a [[ladder.]]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))You could give up. Or you could keep [[going->win?]]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow)) (text-style:"smear")[[Eros.]] (text-style:"blur")[[Philia. ]] ''[[Agape.]]''

(text-colour:white)[[...]]

Everyone from Justin Bieber to Hall and Oats to [[Nat King Cole]] love love. Love is everywhere, but it's [[distorted.]]

(text-colour:yellow)[We love love because we were made for it. Every human has a hole in their heart, but nothing seems to satisfy it. One day you'll get [[married,]] my little girl. Which love do you want?]

[[Eros. ]] [[Philia. ]] [[Agape. ]]

(text-colour:yellow)[You will surely find it.]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))You will surely find it.

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))You will surely find it. (live: 5s)[But you will have to look.] [[Contributers]]

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