Make sure your love is unconditional¹. Make sure you love people in all kinds of "weather". Or else what is the use if we love a person only when he is good or she is nice? When I need the people most that's when they leave me. All the time. So please, I hope you won't be like that. We always have to consider the other party, your companion's situation and mood. Maybe he's in difficulty² right now. That's why his mood is not so sweet. Maybe she has so much work to do and so many headaches, so she cannot be so darling like usual. That time is the time when we need to show our most noble³ quality, the way we want ourselves to be. 

 

It's not that if you are sweet to that person then he will love you more. Maybe he will, maybe he won't. But that is not the point to be good and to be noble. To be good, to be noble is for ourselves because we choose to be that way, we want to keep being that way, and we feel good about it. It's not because, "Okay, now he needs me more. If I show more sympathy⁴（同情，慰问） , then our love will be stronger." It's not even to be considered. 

 

But most of the time we fail the test. When people are in most difficulty, we just leave them, or we are cold and indifferent⁵. "Oh, you're not nice to me. All right, all right.  You'll come and need me soon." Of course they will. When they're in a better mood, when everything goes better, of course they'll come around. But then it's too late. Then it is not love anymore. It's just a need for each other. That's different, because you are used to each other and you need each other sometimes out of habit, out of convenience, out of financial security⁶ reasons -- anything. But it's not true love.

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