God loves us unconditionally, I am sure most of us have heard that, but usually beyond that its only our kids that we might love unconditionally ( not that I have any, but that's what I've heard). So what about everyone else? I mean Jesus loves everyone, and we are suppose to represent him aren't we? So how do we love unconditionally? I mean are we suppose to make ourselves feel that way? In a book I once read there was a character who eventually tried to commit suicide and failed. The thing was that no one like this character because he was always talking so much, he never shut up. I mean this kid talked so much that everyone called him Mouth. The only kid who at least wasn't mean to mouth was the main character, at one point the main character was confessing to a friend that he felt bad because Mouth had tried to commit suicide, because he didn't like Mouth, he tried to be nice to Mouth, but he was just annoying. The friend in the story told the main character, which is easier to be nice to someone because you like them or to be nice to someone because even though you don't like them its the right thing to do.
In Plato's philosophy he believed that no one had virtue, he believed that no one was virtuous. But Plato believed that if you pretended to be virtuous enough, that eventually you would become virtuous. So the only way to love people unconditionally I would say is to do just that, love or pretend to love them unconditionally, the actual feeling of love will eventually follow I believe.
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