The opposite of love is indifference

The opposite of love is not hatred.
It is not anger, nor is it sadness.

What lies in a truly distant place
is the silence called "indifference."

When you feel that you dislike someone,
your heart is still in motion.
You are expecting something, touching something,
and that is why you are shaken.

But indifference is different.
You do not try to reach out,
and you do not try to know.
There, not even the temperature of emotion exists.

It is as if it never existed from the start.

Love is the power to try to be involved.
The will to try to understand.
And finding yourself within the other person.

So if, toward someone,
you still feel something—
that is surely a remnant of love.

A small light
before it fades away completely.

What you do with that light
is yours to choose.

Will you reach out once more?
Or will you quietly let it go?

The only thing that is certain is that
when you become indifferent,
the story ends there.