I Will Always Love You

I Will Always Love You. Those words are what really affected the world, the words she sang so powerfully. I Will always Love You. When Whitney Houston died, the collective, connected world was shocked. Many people had been affected by this song. When she died, why did a world react with such shock and sadness?

Whitney herself was not doing so well. She was unhappy and distressed. She was not loving herself. Who really loved her?

She died having stirred the need and hope of a large number of the world's population. Her song was not so much a statement. It was really a plea. This is what everyone related to when they were touched by her song, the need to be loved. 'I Will Always Love You' is a promise. It is a promise that is not being kept and cannot be kept by most people. It is a declaration that touched so many humans starving for love, unconditional love.

Whitney was really singing a song called 'Will you Always love Me?'

She gave a lot of hope and positive feeling through her exalted singing. The song itself and the way she sang it touched the hearts and minds of so many. Her promise was the answer to her own need. She was answering every human's need ... to be loved. Poor Whitney. If the love were there she may not have died in the way she did. The 'you' she would always love became a phantom because it was a romantic kind of 'you' in a romantic kind of song. The 'you', the 'other' can always slip away and then we are left with our unloved selves whom we don't know and don't know how to love.

Unless we love ourselves I think we will keep searching for an external romantic kind of love, if not romantic, then a very elusive kind of love. When I ask people 'Do you love yourself?' they often say, 'Of course I do.' If that is true then they have definitely had a special real kind of loving from very kind, affectionate, caring, able to be present, available and appropriately attentive parents. Mostly it is not true. People do not love themselves. If we loved ourselves we would never be lonely. We would never keep looking for someone to love us. We would never need the promise that the 'love' we find will be there forever. We ourselves would love everybody, not just our one true love or our own family or only our own particular friends. Mostly we love what serves us. Our love puts 'me' first. It is a needs based self serving love.

To love ourselves we have to find ourselves first. Finding ones real self will naturally automatically bring love for everybody, then we will be qualified to sing to the world, 'I Will Always Love You'

Whitney Houston did a great job with her song, giving much pleasure to a world dreaming of love.

I enjoyed your song many, many times. Thank you Whitney. So sorry you could not find and sustain a love for yourself and you died so tragically and so young. So sad!

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