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Would a child feel love for his mother when he meets her tomorrow; suppose he’d be meeting her for the first time?

Or, will he merely love her because it is expected of an offspring to love its parents?

Doesn’t a person that genuinely loves another, do so because there are memories, recollections that one wouldn’t have with a stranger, that the love is a by-product of?

That is to say: isn’t love, like all emotions, nothing but a state of mind?

Generally speaking, he who claims to be in love with a she he just met, is merely lonely, horny, or, at times, both.

(I am yet to hear of someone who shed tears as a result of a stranger’s passing.)

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Being, and having, brings with it, some form of slavery.

He who has something to lose ends up being a slave to whatever that he has to lose. In the very same way that a sensible speaker is a slave to making sense.

So, as soon as an unemployed person gets employed, he too becomes a slave to “remaining” employed. And, he who plans a journey becomes a slave to its path.

The lover in he who marries becomes restricted to loving the lover in their lover.

Likewise, a reputable man is a slave to "maintaining" his reputation.

(To be obsessed with "freedom" is to be a slave.)

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