Day 52 - Questions

So, normally with this blog, I pick something to reflect on or talk about, but today, I just have some questions that I'd like to pose (and maybe/maybe not speculate some answers to) and hopefully create some pondering and some dialogue.

• Why is love sometimes so hard to find/grasp/keep?  Whether most people recognize or acknowledge it, everyone is on a quest for love....  Yet, it seems like real love eludes most of us.  I was talking to a friend today about her relationship and the beauty that it is, and she said that what she has is hard to find.  This is unfortunately true, and I have to wonder why.  Love is so prevalent in life and relationships that I sometimes have to scratch my head as to why it seems so difficult to find love as a sustained, consistent, positive thing in most people's lives, especially in the romantic sense.
• Is love really boundless/unconditional?  Or, a better way to ask that - can we really love unconditionally?  I think that love itself, as an entity, has no bounds, no limits, and no conditions or prerequisites.  On its own, especially within the heart of an open-minded, 'whole' person, love can be as unconditional and boundless and beautiful as it resides in the heart of God.  I think the problem lies in the fact that people put restrictions, boundaries, and limits on who can love who and in what way.  Someone might argue that not all love is equal or that love can't/shouldn't be expressed in certain ways within certain contexts.  I disagree with that kind of thinking.  Love, in the truest sense, doesn't understand or abide by restrictions.  In the case of Romeo and Juliet, love didn't understand feuding families - it just understood a bond between two people who cared deeply for each other.  Now, I don't agree with suicide, but I do agree with love having the sense to see beyond boundaries when people don't.
• Is it naive to think that love can be a societal norm and motivator?  Can we really have a love ethic within society where people operate out of love instead of greed, compassion instead of self-interest and profit-focus?

Just some things to ponder....  And feel to comment with thoughts/suggestions.