How would we behave if we believed that love was an infinite resource?
I am certain it is. If you have ever truly loved something or someone, you know it in your whole body. The love somehow feels bottomless. It reminds me of when you want to eat up things that are too cute. It's a bottomless feeling that you could just consume them in their entirety and there would still be an endless craving for more.
So why do we treat it like it's the scarcest resource in the world?
At the 2026 Oscars, Ethan Hawke said this: "The one who's in love always wins. It doesn't matter if you get your heart broken; you're living, and when you're feeling, you're alive. The sun doesn't care whether the grass appreciates its rays, right? It just keeps on shining. That's you."
How fucking beautiful is that? What a gift to feel. What a gift to give. What a gift to love.
Yet we focus on all that divides and isolates us. What if we just tapped into the pool of love we all have in spades? Whenever I'm in a doom spiral, I disrupt it with gratitude. It creates a positive feedback loop where I see the light and joy and all that I have to be grateful for. I am beaming right now writing this (fresh out of a doom spiral!).
Our greatest fears of loneliness could be dispelled with more love. But we'd have to stop hoarding it first. We'd have to believe it was ours to give freely and with reckless abandon.
Be the sun! Shine on baby.😎😎😎
Doing it for the love of the team
Go team, Go!
We talk a lot about doing things for the love of the game, but when I think about the times I've been most committed to something, it was always the team that mattered more than the game in the hardest moments.
There are times, as an athlete, professional, or just a human, when the game is no longer fun. You've gotten too competitive. Or you know what you're capable of and you're just not performing at that level. Or you're performing well, but the wins feel hollow, or they get lost in the struggle and the hustle.
The best teams have staying power. How many times have you asked someone why they stay at a job they don't even like, and they say it's because of their team or coworkers? On the days I feel like calling in sick, I don't. I show up for them. I care about being a reliable teammate because they would do it for me.
Most days there is no game to be played. It is all just practice, and on the days when you wake up at 5 a.m. for that morning lift, I don't know about you, but I show up for the team. That's the real joy and the actual reason.
The games and wins come and go, but great teammates are for life.
Stay unscripted my loves.
🖤 - EmmyLu