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As a human being grows older, I realize that one thing that is diminishing in all aspects is love. Pure love, to the point where I'm starting to lose the meaning of love. But would I then become apathetic and unempathetic? No, no, no. Of course not. I still have other emotional needs. So, for this prompt, it's obviously very easy for me to answer: "What if love didn't need more—only less?" I've often wondered what it would be like if love disappeared. Completely vanished from this world. Would the world be okay? Would human relationships be in chaos, as if it were the end of the world? Or would wars break out everywhere, and humans would destroy each other? Of course not. God created our brains with such perfection and detail. For me, love is the illusion. LoL. I'm sorry. Before 'love' existed, humans constructed emotional things under other names: sympathy, empathy, respect, and so on. But, it's true that people prefer to prioritize the word "love" first, because they're too lazy to examine the stages that precede it. It's easy, isn't it? Maintaining social intimacy is easy. In all relationships, people can use the respect they have for others. I think respect is something higher than love itself. If love can bring chaos and bias, leading to murder and other crimes, what about respect? What if humans respected one another? How do humans sympathize and empathize with one another? Isn't that a higher feeling than just the word love? Facing life realistically, at my age, I'm quite aware that one day I might marry someone who isn't just about love, but also about my respect for that person. What values does he or she possess that I can respect and that we can care for each other in our life as a couple. --- ![IMG-20260414-WA0019.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/titisnariyah/243WTf21z1zgqdGWdYaMoVs9ibfQmDvdEWPFYT1kzSQMrcuy9YDVQfD9uj7FXRuSCannt.jpg) ![IMG-20230226-WA0010.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/titisnariyah/243fnPHLo8qgAcX8ytSRdPcGwSFibDxDDRrhGF3F2ktQyTCRHi7WSLEuyx12BWHw2nUYy.jpg) ![IMG-20260410-WA0015.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/titisnariyah/23sdSzzHCqFhg7VSwyzFs1iKcCrn6pnJJCBw2E5oi32CecCg4md2ZyAZZRBCwFm93R5D9.jpg) My friends and family --- What do you think? Isn't friendship simpler and easier if its members respect each other? Respect each other's decisions, choices and opinions, for example. Thank you for stopping by my writing. Greetings respect. --- ---

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Titis N _{Hi, I am the child of the universe, I like to read books with various genres. I was born in the city of batik but can't draw batik yet. I want to be a novelist, but my works are only short poems that are included in anthology books.} _{please share my content if you feel my content is good for everyone to read. Thank you. Let's be friends!}

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