Afraid of Love. (2 min)

We trust the ego because it offers a false sense of security, but we fear love because it threatens the very foundation of our carefully constructed identity. We misinterpret the world because we’re afraid of what love will ask us to let go of — namely, the ego’s illusions of safety and control.

Isn’t it wild that we place so much trust in what the ego demands of us? Chase after status, protect yourself, compete with others, and defend your identity at all costs. These are orders we follow without question. The ego gives us a familiar script: survive by playing small, clutching onto what’s mine, and fearing what’s yours.

But love? Love terrifies us. Love asks us to do the one thing the ego can’t tolerate: surrender. Love whispers for us to release control, let down our defenses, and embrace openness and vulnerability. The problem is, we’ve been living under the ego’s rules for so long that we’ve mistaken its demands for survival.

And why? Because deep down, we know that if we listen to love, it will dismantle the very identity we’ve been clinging to. Love doesn’t want our achievements, our status, or our security blankets. Love asks for truth. It asks us to trust in something we can’t control — and that’s what scares us.

We misinterpret the world because we view it through the lens of fear. The ego sees love as a threat to its existence, so we project that fear onto everything around us. But the real question is: What does love actually ask of us? Spoiler — it’s not sacrifice. That’s the ego talking.

Love doesn’t strip away what’s real; it only burns through the illusions. It doesn’t demand we give up anything of true value, just the chains we’ve come to mistake for security. Yet we resist because we fear the unknown of who we’ll become without our ego-driven identity.

What if love is actually the safest place to land? What if everything we fear losing is the very thing that’s been holding us back? Maybe the real sacrifice is staying small, locked in the ego’s prison, while love is offering us the key to the door.

The irony? We’re terrified of love because we think it asks too much, but all it really wants is to free us from the demands of the ego. And if that’s not freedom, then what is?

#thinkgod
I am sorry.
Please forgive me.
Thank you.
I love you.