Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast Monday morning moments with John O'Leary.

I record these so you and I can begin our weeks in awe and on fire with the burst of inspiration.

Let's get a little bit of inspiration for my buddy.

Eric Fromm wrote this.

Immature love says, I love you because I need you.

Mature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I love you because I love you.

With the heated conversations around debt ceiling, Chinese balloons flying over airspace,

and the state of the union occurring, we observe from our friends in D.C.

plenty of angry finger pointing and boisterous yelling.

We see it on both sides of the aisle, by the way.

That anger and that discontent is echoed by many of the citizens that they are supposed to serve,

with 36% of Americans reporting that they are lonely, almost 50% of marriages failing,

and more than 60% of adults describe themselves as not very happy. It's easy to feel down, isn't it?

Add on to that, a war that continues to rage in Ukraine and a catastrophic earthquake decimating parts of Turkey and the already war-torn parts of Syria

and whispers of fiscal cliffs that we might fall off as a macro economy and negative headlines popularly in the papers.

And, and, right, the answers keep coming.

And, well, my friends, into this swirl of chaos, little Cupid is set to fly and return

tomorrow, armed with arrows of love.

I hope he brings a lot of arrows.

Although marketers have simplified Valentine's Day by focusing solely on romantic love,

the day could be so much more.

What if instead of just couples celebrating their love with a box of chocolates or wrapped flowers or a dinner date?

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