On Conflating Love-Worthiness with Love.

Don’t conflate “worthiness of being loved” with the reality of actually being loved. The two concepts have no bearing on each other, even if it feels like they would.

It sounds cold to admit to admit out loud, but the love we receive from one-another is often undeserved. A child has done nothing to deserve a parents’ love, but few would doubt the a parent’s love for a child. The very act of protecting, teaching and nurturing a child is a form of love so commonly expressed by humans — that many would describe it as a natural, or instinctual even.