This winter, my students were to write essays using a real-life hero as an example of someone who went through the archetypal Hero's Journey. There are 10 steps to this journey, and it was a bit much for some. One of the steps is "the Experience with Unconditional Love."
In grading the final product, I ran across a student who gave an example of love and then said, "which represents the 'experiment with unconditional love.'" I had to correct the name of the step for him—and I crossed out experiment to write in experience. But I cannot help but wonder if he didn't stumble onto something greater.
Maybe each new relationship we enter into is really just a new experiment with love. And we are merely testing the hypothesis that there is within everyone something that is worth loving and that something deserves to be loved unconditionally. And sometimes our experiments fail, and sometimes the results are phenomenal, but all are experiments where we have no way of knowing the end result until we give it a whirl…
Contributed by Catie.
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