The purpose of loving someone is not to be loved in return, as love is something abundant that stems from inside of you, which you are gifting to another person. Your self-love is a well within you incapable of being emptied, and love is a never-ending flame, incapable of being put out. It is not something that you get or earn, it is not something that you must search for in the hope of one day finding, and it is not something that you lack and must extract from another person, but something you may share and radiate as you are love. Words by Tahlia Hunter Artwork by Catrin Welz-Stein