LOVE IS THE CURRENCY WE SPEND

Once, on a trip to Maine, I tried lobster. After all, "when in Rome, ..." And since people pay such a high dollar nearly everywhere else for this delicacy, I figured I might as well partake of it in the state where so many are caught.
I didn't like it. I found it rubbery and tasteless, kind of like a flavorless chewing gum.
You may well like lobster and, if you do, then all the more for you. I just won't be ordering it anytime in the foreseeable future.
On the other hand, I tried gyros while at a Greek restaurant in Toronto and loved them. I just have to figure out if I can find a similar eatery near my home and also determine if I can fix this tasty dish at home.
How I feel about those two foods are often the way we feel about people. Right or wrong, there are people whom we can take or leave, preferring to leave. And there are people we just love, no matter what.
Do not misunderstand me, the former group is not made up of people we hate or abhor, for those emotions are far too similar to love in that they are passions stirred up. No, the former group is filled with those people for whom we have no strong feelings at all -- not love nor hate, like nor dislike; more indifference than anything else.
My father once spoke about his time in the military and said he learned one thing about life from it. When he walked into the barracks for the first time, he said, he realized there were about five or six guys he liked right away and about five or six he didn't like right away. The rest were, as he said, "in the middle." And when boot camp was over, he said, a few of the "liked" five or six had moved to the "disliked" five or six and vice versa. But no one had left the middle.
The challenge in life, sometimes, is in doing something caring and loving for any of those people for whom we have no strong interest. If you don't love someone, it can be very difficult to want to do them any favors, especially if it means going well out of your way. If you don't like them, chances are they will never ask anything of you. Ironically, a person for whom you really have no interest at all, about whom you have no strong feelings, can land on your "disliked" list if they ask too much of you too often. What bothers you isn't the person, so much as their uncanny ability to constantly ask for things or services. They may just be trying to constantly get your attention in a cloying and demanding way without being able to accept that they simply are not on your personal radar.
On the other hand, a person you love can ask for anything and you will do everything in your power to get it for them, no matter how difficult or demanding the request. Even if they ask you to never speak to them again, you may try to talk them out of it but you will do your best to honor that request, despite the personal pain you feel, all because of the love you have for them.
Love, in the end, makes all of the difference in our personal relationships. Giving to the ones we love is easy, even when it is not. Giving to someone we don't care about at all can be trying and difficult, largely because we do not love them. For it is love that we give when we do for others and it is hard to give love to someone for whom we don't feel any love. Love is the currency we spend and we spend it best with those we love.