Just because you didn't experience one doesn't mean that there is no love kya....there is still hope....hope is the beginnin of all...oh...but I amost forgot that you're one hopeless/pessimist creature...:) I do agree that it's difficult to find genuine friendship in this materialistic world. But it doesn't mean that friendship doesn't exist...yes true friendship is rare....you cannot buy a friend! If your friend can be bought with money, then that's not your real friend. they are just "hi/hello" ones. And I'd say friendship is mutual too...It doesn't work by only one person trying to put effort. I still say real love starts with friendship, and lust doesn't. but ofcouse lust could eventually end up with love because of friendship...if there is no friendship in the lustful relationship, that relationship with most definitely end sooner or later. Love of a partent to a child....it is human nature to take care of a helpless, esp when it's your own blood. But as the child starts to develop mind of his own, the parents often find it difficult to tame the child to fulfill the parents' desire. BUT if the parents 'realizes' that the children have mind of their own and might have their own wishes, only then, the friendship between a parents and a child can develop! And only then, the strong bond can develop. And as a said earlier, friendship between a parent and a child is mutual too. :)