Your love.
Relevant reflections on Gabriel Marcel’s The Mystery of Being : Faith and Reality, Chapter IX, “Death and Hope”
The objective and subjective elements of the interpersonal Thou do not amount to a distinction, rather, they comprise a unity of the way I regard the Other. The indestructibility of the being I love is not because he is an object of pure abstraction or concreteness that possesses some quality that makes him indestructible. Rather, the indestructibility lies in his relationship to me, in my relationship to him, in the mutual and persistent bond inherent in the love that allows each of us to regard one another as unities, as subjectivity-objectivities in which we know we shall endure, immortal in sacrifice for the other. This bond shall endure despite death.
That is, LOVE GIVES HOPE.
And you and your love give me hope.
(But how? I need to know.)
