![]() Not everyone experiences a monster as a monster. Regardless of motive, the outcome is the same. Maybe it’s just another reflex, as unconscious as the way my voice slips into a slightly different register when I’m around trusted friends. Or maybe it’s because monsters want to be loved just as much as anyone else, and they understand that those who experience their ungoverned impulses aren’t likely to give them support, affection, admiration. Maybe this is because the monster sees the world as divided into unequal parts, where some deserve to flourish while others deserve to be the targets of ungoverned impulse. All monsters partition other people into two categories-those who witness their monstrosity, and those who don’t. It’s easy for a monster to seem loveable. ![]() To love a monster is easy, when the monster seems loveable. ![]() But on its own, love is no different from any other feeling. Action might spring from emotion-love might lead to an expression of affection, anger might lead to violence, a powerful impulse might lead to a monstrous act. Like anger or sadness or the desire to kill, it arrives without invitation or intention. Love in its many forms wells up out of the human spirit irrepressibly. Emotions, urges, and impulses are themselves beyond our ability to control. It’s easy to love a monster because love isn’t a decision. ![]() It is the easiest thing in the world to love a monster. ![]()
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