Wednesday, February 6, 2013

February

   Ah February, the month of my birth, the month of love. The single most powerful driving force behind the decisions of millions in the world. I once believed that love was something that could cure world wills and bring down walls. Naivete and capricious youth made me believe this was true. I mean I was always one to be a self professed hopeless romantic. And in a way I still believe in the ideal of love in this capacity. I just don't believe in the people anymore.
   More often then not love is used as leverage. Instead of an emotion that can connect you to the world and people around you, you're made someone or somethings bitch instead.And it's easy for us to be used this way. Social creatures desire social interaction. The most meaningful interactions being where we feel connected to the thing. Most people will do anything to maintain this, no matter the cost turning a blind eye to activities and behaviors that should sound blaring alarms.
   Love is what makes the world turn there is no doubt there. But not the purer side of love that lies with compassion and forgiveness and concern for your fellow man. Love is desire, all to easily perverted or corrupted. An easy example would be the seven deadly sins:
      Pride: Love of ones own abilities/self over others
      Lust: Physical love is most important
      Gluttony:  Love of what you can put in yourself.
      Sloth: The love of doing nothing
      Envy and Greed: Loving others things more than what you have
      Wrath: Deficiency of pure love and an abundance of desire
   This just being one example of how love can be seen to be twisted. But it hard to have the message of love your neighbor as you love yourself if love is also rooted in the other side of the coin as well. It's a sharp point on the blade to try an balance and it's easy to be cut. And I don't think most people have the fortitude for that kind of long haul, invariably falling to the "dark side". What more proof do you need then the reality of our culture today. Look at any talk show. Even if some segments are faked the mire and pain that these people are in is staggering. " I can change this person, they said they wouldn't hit me any more, You don't understand I LOVE THIS PERSON  and I need to be with them." Like I said before blind to what is going to happen. And some form of that statement always comes up from both males and females. We enable others to horrible things to us and with us because no one else will understand the love that is shared. That kind of belief is beautiful and ugly, utterly dark and blindingly bright.
   Even with all these pitfalls, to not love at all would be a more dire fate. So the best I could say would be to love fully, frequently and faithfully. And perhaps most difficult , love sensibly.

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