love

"Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better." (3.1 line 153)

Personally, I detest beginning anything with a quote. I think it's poor form to begin a paper, report, etc. with someone else's thought. This is why I will never write a formal piece beginning with a quote, however because this is the nature of the blog assignment, an exception exists.

There's a fine line between obsession and love. In fact, it's so fine very few even know it exists. If you have to seek out someone to love you, then it isn't love; it's persuasion. Therefore, having love be unsought is the only way to truly be loved. If someone loves another they just do. There's no discussion, seeking, or method to make it happen it just is. Unsought love is the only love. It not only exists in a passionate love affair, but is best represented in family love. For birthday's you don't ask your grandparents to present you with a gift, they just do. But when it gets to the point that you have to ask or constantly remind another to do something for you, it's no longer out of love but out of request. That is the worst type of relationship to ever put yourself into.

Viola certainly doesn't love Olivia, and Olivia doesn't really love Cesario. It's merely the idea of love that she and so many others are enticed to seek.