Unconditional Love

Unconditional love is when someone loves you no matter what. There is no limit to their love.

When people think of unconditional love, they usually think of their lover or maybe their friends.

I have no lover, and I know the love my friends give me is limited. If I ever step a toe out of line, if I say one wrong word, if I fuck up badly enough, I know they would abandon me.

Why do I know that?

Because it’s happened before.

There is one person -besides God, but I’d rather not bring religion into this- who loves me unconditionally. And that is my mother.

My father only loves me for my grades, so he hasn’t loved me for a long time. Anytime I struck up a conversation with him, I can see it in his eyes that he truly doesn’t care.

My sisters are sisters. They love me when they want to, hate me when they want to, despise me when I want to. They’ll yell at me as much as they want and then expect me to look up and respect them even so.

But my mother, my dear mother. She’s the only one who doesn’t need to know why, doesn’t need words, she’ll just know something is wrong and hug me. She always tells me she loves me, no matter how bad my grades are. No matter how much work I don’t do. No matter what, I know my mother loves me. Anytime she yells or scolds me is because she wants me to have a good life.

I love my mother, I really do. So I will stay in this world a little longer, just for her. Because I would hate to return her unconditional love with a hanged corpse.