Learning to love is a difficult task as it requires a certain emotional maturity. This isn’t something that’s necessarily defined by age, but man, it’s something I wish I had more of when I was younger. 

The idea of love was a bit of a foreign concept, especially in the way that others spoke about it.

Sure, if you pressed me enough, I would tell you that I loved my family, but I didn’t know what that really meant. Love wasn’t even my most treasured emotion—it was anger. I was an angry person for many years, holding onto it without ever knowing why. 

It wasn’t until I learned to let go of that anger, that I was fully able to experience love.

Replacing hositility and bitterness with an outlook of love has changed me in numerous ways and I continue to work at it. I don’t always get it right, and it’s not easy, but it certainly helps my relationships with others . 

Loving others, and doing it well, requires more than words: it requires you to live a message.

It’s a never-ending process, but worth working on.