You can freely give it away, because it is an infinitely renewable resource. Feel free to love extravagantly, for there will never be a day when you cannot give love, and there will never be an instant when someone does not need it. Love is the ultimate goodness. It is not lust, nor need, nor domination, nor an escape from loneliness and despair. It is not a mutual collusion in romantic delusion.
Real love is patient and kind, unselfish and forgiving.
It never leads you into pettiness or evil, but rejoices in the good, the true and the beautiful. Next week you may be dead. Love your mother, your daughter, your son, your spouse, your neighbor, your great grandmother or even your great grandmother s cat. You can either do it now, or sit around and watch your soul shrivel up into a warty little prune.