“Love without sacrifice is theft.” – Nassim Taleb
What makes love so great? The level or degree of sacrifice we put forth in order to verify that love.
The other night when doing the midnight shift taking care of baby Seneca — I remembered and thought:
If having a baby were so easy, the profundity and elevation of joy and love associated with parenthood wouldn’t be verified.
In other words, anything you get, do, receive in life which doesn’t require sacrifice or “skin in the game” isn’t meaningful. In simpler words:
The more we sacrifice for something, the more meaning it has.