What is Love? (According to children)
No mentions of situationships, bae, pookie found here!
February has a way of doing this to us.
The world turns pink and red. E-commerce follows suit. Blinkit offers you an origami flower bouquet made from its paper bag. Instagram suggests “5 creative ways to ask someone to be your Valentine.” Restaurants roll out curated Galentine’s menus.
Love becomes loud. Marketed. Packaged. Hashtagged.
Every year around this time, we find ourselves digging through the FUEL archives like nostalgic treasure hunters looking for something far simpler. And we always land on a simple question we once asked children: “What is love?” and their responses to it.
Because long before we tried to define love through relationships, responsibilities, and rituals… children had already understood something about it.
As Valentine’s Day approaches, we invite you to spend a few minutes with these young philosophers and their beautifully ordinary wisdom.
Watch: Love Simplified by Children | Deepak Ramola, Founder of Project FUEL
In here, you will find 13-year old Rehema’s words of wisdom, “True love is to help people without making them feel isolated” and many more such reminders.
Children understand a lot more than we give them credit for. Unsurprisingly, they often know a lot more too. Maybe that’s why we return to this video every February. To recalibrate. To listen again.
At FUEL, we believe wisdom lives everywhere.
Sometimes, it just needs a microphone at kid-height.
With love (the potato fry-sharing kind),
Team FUEL