The desire to be loved is the last illusion… give it up & u will be free - Margaret Atwood

The desire to be loved - it sounds so human, so natural, so poetic. 

And yet, it is the last illusion that keeps us chained. We spend lifetimes seeking love from parents, friends, partners, the world. 

We twist, shrink, and perform, hoping someone will see us, choose us, love us. But what if love was never meant to be found? What if it was meant to be realised  within?

The moment you stop chasing love, you discover something profound - love was never missing. It was merely buried beneath layers of need, fear, and approval. The desire to be loved turns us into beggars, waiting for crumbs of validation. But when you drop that desire, you become whole, no longer asking to be completed, but just overflowing from within. 

Freedom begins where the need ends. You still love, but without fear. You still care, but without expectations. You give, not because you want something back, but because giving itself is joy.

To be free from the illusion of needing love is to be one with the divine. It’s when you stop saying, “Please love me,” and start whispering, “I am love.”

Then, life changes, you don’t wait for love to arrive; you become the source of it.

And in that wholeness, the universe bends softly towards you, not because you needed it, but because you finally understood it was never separate from you.

Rani