Agape, Love

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

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

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))[[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 outfit?

(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 outfit? 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 outfit? Do you like me back? Simple [[questions,]] revealing [[answers.]]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))You are put to the [[test.->answers.]] (live:1s)[Is something bothering you, my [[dear?]]]

(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:?page,(text-colour:yellow))(enchant: ?passage's chars, via (t8n-delay:pos * 100) + (t8n:'instant'))(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))I love pizza. I love Nat King Cole. I love sunsets. 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 attracted Mom and [[Daddy.]]

Will I understand 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 out if this boy likes me] Will someone love me that way too? (click-replace: "love me that way too") [marry me like you married Mom] [[Oh, won't you tell me?]]

(enchant:?page,(text-colour:yellow))(enchant: ?passage's chars, via (t8n-delay:pos * 100) + (t8n:'instant'))(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow)) Attraction is important, like your crush. You admire something about him. His hair, or his smile, or his cunning charisma, which is good. But in a relationship, there is [[more.]]

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

(text-colour:yellow)[You could [[advance.]]]

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

(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))(enchant: ?passage's chars, via (t8n-delay:pos * 100) + (t8n:'instant')) Yes. You are brother and sister. But philia is comradery. 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 ")[affection: you stick through everything together, the good, the bad, and the ugly]. You help each other. You stand up for each other. But still friendship could be [[broken.]] (text-colour:white)[It can? So how do you continue?]

Then why be friends at all? 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 Oates to [[Nat King Cole]] loves 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. Even married people get lonely. And sad. But, one day you'll probably get [[married,]] my little girl. Which love do you want to strive for?]

(enchant:?page,(text-colour:yellow)) [[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.]]]

Well... (live: 2s)[There's [[this]] [[boy.->answers.]]]

(text-colour:white)[ * I'm [[good]] * I'm [[okay]] * [[Eh]]]

(enchant: ?passage's chars, via (t8n-delay:pos * 100) + (t8n:'instant'))(text-colour:yellow)[Of course there is. I smelled the scent of [[roses]] and love from a mile away. The first of many. Ah, love. I used to be in love...]

You mean [[mom?]]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))(live: 1s)[Yeah I mean mom, Ceci. Yes, mom was my first real crush, first real love. Have you had [[crushes]] before?]

Well, I had a crush on Leonardo DiCaprio in //Growing Pains//, but that's it. (live:3s)[No real boy.] (live:5s)[Not like this [[boy.]]]

(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))How [[long]] have you known this boy?

How long? (live:2s)[I mean he's been in my class since first grade, but I never paid much [[attention]] to him, until just barely the other day.]

(enchant: ?passage's chars, via (t8n-delay:pos * 100) + (t8n:'instant'))(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:yellow))What do you know about him? What have you observed about him? How do you know he likes you back? How do you know you like him? How do you know it isn't just fleeting? How do you know you could trust him? How do you know [[I->answers.]] could trust him?

Like [[marriage?]]

(enchant:?page,(text-colour:yellow))(enchant: ?passage's chars, via (t8n-delay:pos * 80) + (t8n:'instant'))(text-colour:yellow)[You are on the right path, my Ceci. But no need to worry about that now. Just keep it in the back of your mind. Human beings will disappoint you. Crushes, lovers, friends, even siblings. Sometimes even parents, sometimes even me. And lovers die. Mhmmm. And love seems to perish. But still, there is more. Love, true, true love, (text-style:"expand")[agape], will win in [[the end.]]]

(text-colour:magenta)[[Contributors]]

Kincaid, Zach. “Four Types of Love.” Official Site | CSLewis.com, HarperCollins Publishers, 13 Feb. 2020, https://www.cslewis.com/four-types-of-love/. “Nat King Cole - L-O-V-E (Lyric Video).” YouTube, Nat King Cole, 5 Apr. 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_HmF84G7ZY&list=RDf_HmF84G7ZY&start_radio=1. Accessed 7 Nov. 2022.