Love a Thing, It's a Genda

If you love a thing, you don't want it to be dependent on you for the rest of its life. You want it to become stronger and ultimately independent of you. The next aspect here is having its back, defending it, being loyal to it. And then some of your friends that are a bit more sketchy, that you wouldn't trust so readily. Why not? It's cause you realize that they actually don't have your back. They're sort of like gauging how much suffering and fear and challenge of life can this little consciousness handle.