When Not Enough Is Too Much

As a society, we are constantly flooded with the ‘more for less’ concept. A burger for a buck. Buy one, get one free. Debt reduction. A dealer’s incentive. Vacation destinations. Advertisements leading all your hopes and dreams to rest on the belief that you can have more for less.

All this is good and fine when it’s monetary. But what about love? Why do we tend to treat love as though it too is a commodity to be bartered with? Why do we expect more for less?

We forcibly hold others at arms length and wonder why they do not come closer when we ask them to. We look into the eyes of our current partner for affirmation of love, yet still search for the greener grass growing. We toss love aside, and expect to find it exactly where we left it months ago. We break each other, on purpose, and wonder why love is not reciprocated when we say we are sorry. We are hurt and so we give less, all while expecting the offender to give more than before. We continue to expect more, and give less. And then we give less, because we are given less. And then we give less, and on and on…

Why do we love so sparingly? Are we really that afraid of the cost? And at what cost? Shouldn’t we stop waiting until we lose someone to realize what they mean to us? Should we not instead choose to love them now as we would choose to be loved by them later? Are we really willing to hide our hearts away and continue to lose, all because we haven’t always, and may not always win?

When will not enough, finally become too much?

…. and the greatest of these, is love.