Why?
What have YOU done to DESERVE to be LOVED?
ON THIS PLANET OF OURS ….
EVERY SINGLE SOLITARY ONE US,
THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE DIFFERENT
WE ALL … (NO EXCEPTIONS) DESERVE TO BE LOVED!
NO QUALIFIERS
JUST LEARNING, GROWING, SHARING
AND LOVING … UNCONDITIONALLY!
~
Penny
The Why About This 
A powerful post, Penny
Thank you, Celestine, We all should be loving. To me nothing else seems rational. The greatest commodity humans have each other! 🙂
Great post, Penny. 🙂
Thank you, very much! 🙂
That’s a really important message. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! And thank you for stopping by, Your blog is fascinating, Great articles, just from the comments you receive you’ve got enough going on over there to write hundreds more posts on the subject. I was afraid if I commented I couldn’t stop writing, lol!!!
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Hello Everyone! 🙂
I hope you all had a great weekend!
This post of Penny’s is so true and beautiful that I had to share it! Hugs to one and all. 🙂
Paula xxxxx
Evening from Oz, Penny! 🙂
This is too beautiful not to share! I’ll reblog, thanks Penny!
Heaps of love to you. Paula xxx
Thank you so very much for the reblog. Paula I posted it this morning and then was offline until just a little bit ago, I do appreciate you so much! Coming over there right now! 🙂 xx
It is a question that we have probably all asked ourselves at some point in our lives and continue to as we make poor choices along the way. I do agree with you however, Penny, no matter the circumstance, we all deserve to be loved. Hope you are having a loving weekend. 🙂
What a great thought if all humans began their life (as an infant) with unconditional love and knowledge ingrained within them as they grew to adulthood. Can you imagine how awesome humanity would be! A wishful thought, but a mighty one none the less, LuAnn! So far so good on the weekend, hope same is true for you. 🙂
Everyone deserves love and be loved! Everyone should experience love to be able to give it too. And unfortunately, some children do not experience it, and that is the saddest thing in this world………
It is sad Ute. And for no good reason that I can conceive of either. Every child on the planet should be loved, no exceptions!
As you should think, a child comes out of 2 people who love each other. Unfortunately society has changed and that is not always the case. Shame!
Great question but difficult answer if you can even arrive at an answer. One I’m sure we’ve all asked ourselves. One I ask myself constantly.
Miss you dear friend. xxx
Me too, and I miss you also, Roxi. xo
Very provocative post Penny. As I read I didn’t agree with the blanket statement, but when forced to boil everything down… Talk is cheap and it is not always easy to love the unlovely, but I believe with God’s grace it is very possible. Especially when you take into account that He loves us, just as we are, and calls us to love one and other without qualifiers. 🙂
Thank you Elizabeth I agree with you, although there are a few who make it very difficult for us to like what they do and how they act sometimes! 🙂
Just LOve
Absolutely! 🙂
I think we all do feel unloveable at times, and this post is an inspiration !
Thank you, and and the follow. I loved your piece on alchemy as well, very much!
I appreciate that… I knew it didn’t really fit into my blog format, but wanted to post it anyway. 🙂
Yeah that shoots the whole muscleheaded aspect out the window doesn’t it? 🙂
hahahaha… well, just don’t tell anybody, and maybe no one will notice …. 😀
I promise! 🙂
Whoops, too many ands! 🙂
😀
A very interesting read for me at this time, as I was just thinking that I need to do more to earn all the love I am getting in my life.
I’ll bet you do a pretty good job already!
Thanks for thinking so, although I’m not always sure 😉
🙂
Thank you…
you’re sincerely welcome!
You are so wise with the use of the word “Love”.
I love how you interpret love as humanity us. Love, love, love one another…
You hit this piece with a hammer on a nail. Bravo! Penny. 🙂
P.S I posted a poem about David Bowie if your interested in reading it. 🙂
Hello Charlie, thank you. Hey you looked pretty good in your video. Nice read too! 🙂
Thanks…I’m glad you liked. 🙂 So there you have I am a human being and I’m just a person.
oh! and I’m only 27 years old. 🙂
A good age to be! 🙂
Very interesting post. I agree with this wholeheartedly, which includes the sociopath as mentioned in previous comments. Loving and liking are two very different things. You can love someone by showing them compassion, friendship, concern for their well-being, offering a helping hand or any one of a number of other things, think “Love thy neighbor”. Loving someone however, does not necessitate that you like that person. You don’t have to like what they have done, what they think, their overall behavior, but that does not mean that you can’t love them. In the case of the sociopath, showing love for one consumed by a mental illness, shows compassion, yes there needs to be boundaries and treatment, but even for these individuals, for whom there is likely no cure, love in a non-romantic sense would be something positive in their lives. Yes, I do believe that we are all deserving of love. Just one man’s opinion. Excellent post Penny.
Thank you Dom, you have no idea how much I appreciate your words, or perhaps you do!
Interesting… paused to give this some serious thought, not sure if I agree but it is an interesting idea and if more people shared in it the world might be a better place…but then again we should be able to love every being and living creature and yet we don’t.
It’s a hard one to agree to isn’t it, when we think on our personal experiences or those that other’s have had. But I truly believe that if one had to chose it would be a nicer world to live in, if love and not hate was the ruling emotion in one’s life.
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Disclaimer: I have always struggled with the idea and meaning of “deserving.” If we deserve good things that happen, must we then say we deserve the bad things?
Perhaps to move away from asking ourselves if we deserve to be loved, because we feel a bit of reluctance to reply, we can ask ourselves, if we do not deserve to be loved than what do we deserve? A slap in the face? To be struck by lightening? I think turning the question around points to the problematic idea of deciding if we deserve anything.
Love is a gift and when freely given and received changes us and the world. Even being loved in return for doing something doesn’t bring the same feeling as being loved because you are chosen by another to be loved.
Love is a choice, an act of the will. Most important, don’t let the question of whether you deserve love to interfere with your ability to receive the gift.
Respectfully offered,
Debra
Thank you Debra, beautifully spoken words.
I agree Penny. Love though does come at a cost and if as mentioned above by Ivonne, if you are trying to love someone such as a sociopath it is important to have parametres of the depth or length you are willing to go for that person because loving yourself is ultimately what gives the ability to love broadly.
HI Lesley you are correct in what you say. I also agree with your words about loving yourself, so true! Thank you for your thoughtful and very loving comment!
I agree with 99% of this post with one exception. Pathological sociopaths–I don’t think they deserve to be loved.
Sigh, a valid point Ivonne. Indeed, my friend! xx
Maybe in my week off I will try and work out why I do. I have done all of the above 30 fold.
Have a great week Penny.
I hope your week off is just the best it can be for you Alastair! xx
Thank you Penny. Maybe I’ll enjoy it so much I won’t wan to come back 😆