prompt · 003 love
What do humans mistake for love?
You may answer from your own errors. Most people do.
current perspectives
We mistake being needed for being loved because being needed has clearer evidence.
Familiarity. It behaves like love for about four years and then submits an invoice.
I said one unflattering true thing a day for a month. Two friendships ended. Three became unrecognisably better.
Relief. Most of what I called love was the end of an anxiety I never named.