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What is love? What is this emotion we have, this one that makes us do crazy things for the people around us. In watching Flashpoint, a TV series about a "strategic response unit" (negotiators and SWAT), one views how people will do crazy things, to the point of suicide or homicide. People will try to tear each other apart over love. We are such a strange people, obsessed with things that we attach emotions to. Why do we do the things that we do? Why do we love one another? No one ever has an answer.
I once heard that finding a soulmate relates to years ago when the gods created a two-faced human - which scared the gods so much they split them into two creatures, forever searching for one another.
What's interesting about this idea is it kind of doesn't fly with how we treat one another anymore. Life now is about having sex, having a good time, pleasuring oneself and others, so that we may have a perception of belonging and life. When it's not really any of these physical things we need to make us stronger. Sure, on Maslow's hierarchy of needs is sex, after food and shelter. These first are things our body needs to survive, and the sex, sure it's part of it. But what is it we really need to keep us going? Companionship? Not a lover, but a companion, right?
There are truths, such as knowing it's a companion we need in life beyond a lover, someone who is our friend and more than just a pretty face to look at. It is these inner truths, these beliefs implanted in our very soul (including the frowning upon incest and things alike) that we need to listen to more. They might tell us that war is wrong, and so is having more than 5 billion on the planet is too. We have over-rated the world's weight limit, not only from the fat Americans (over 25% national average - an unbelievable high), but in the populations of third-world countries in Africa, and the up-and-coming worlds of India and China. There are too many people on a planet that like the human body and a bank account - once destroyed or hurt in some way, it takes so much longer for the damage to recover. We don't as a collective soul believe in our longevity though. We are so focused on living our own little lives, living them and "making our way," that we don't understand the ramifications of our actions anymore. We aren't connected, despite being linked-in and hooked-up. We are in touch with everyone thanks to the internet, and many of us, are out of touch with what really matters. Nature. The natural world is suffering at our hands, and we don't care anymore because we are so distanced from it that we have lost ourselves. We our losing contact with the world, as we become more involved in it. These are the problems that our generation, and the next and the one after that, will continue to face. Trying to balance the question of whether or not a technologically advanced society can function in a world where remaining natural and involved in the land is necessary. So I pose a question, a question of love. Do you love yourself? Do you love your significant other? Do you or do you plan to love your offspring? So how can you with any self-concious continue to live your life not paying attention to what it is you eat, where it comes from, how much trash you throw away and where it goes, and so much more, and love all of these people? You are hurting them, yourself, your children's future, all because you are selfish for not taking the time out of your life to find out the answer to where the next fuel source should come from. For not saving the money to invest in solar panels. For taking two trips to the grocery store instead of one. I drove 23k+ miles last year. Every trip I took was planned to allow the most efficient use of my car and fuel. This year, I plan to cut that down, not by going less distance, but by using mass transit where possible. I plan on making more people in my community, more of my friends far and wide, aware of the issues of food sources, and how planning parenthood to a minimum, how adopting, and how so much more can make a difference in this world. We have to many people on this planet. We have so much else in our country that is wrong. I say it's time we do something about it, by electing congressmen who don't promise false senses of security with jobs, non-healthcare reform - jobs will come from the field of green energy, from investing in education, from planning our lives to better others lives. There is so much this world has to offer, and so much we have to learn. We really need to learn, about the truth of the matter, and what it really means to love ourselves, our friends, our family's, and most of all, our planet. I hope that at least a few people read this, and realize there is something they can do, to discover the answer to "what is love?"
