Collaborating with Sal (Sublime favourite blogger of mine) for this month’s I am a zed blogger challenge has been the most organic thing I’ve done all year. Even with our writers block riddled minds we managed to pull one trick out of the hat at the very last minute. This post is an impression of what love is from our vantage point.
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“True unconditional love tears through the frail fabric of mortality. Life can come and go as quick as the wind, but love survives the test of time. A heart full of love will always be remembered.” – Gregory E Sapp
Some say love is the basis of all creation. Late nights I keep thinking of creation in all its glory and filth makes me reluctantly agree. Others who may have unfortunately encountered the bitter side of love will say they loathe it and all of the hurt that it brings along with it. Do you stand by and let people who were careless with your love take away your ability to feel again? Nothing ever quite prepares us for love and its eventual disappointments. Yet like children we never learn, we still play with fire even after it burns us countless times. Isn’t it absurd how we have our hearts broken, vow to never be involved with anyone ever again, but the minute that special someone comes along our Great Wall of China crumbles and we let them in and it’s all peaches and roses again like we didn’t just suffer a massive heart break prior to that? In the word of Pedro Calderon de la Barca “When love is not madness, it is not love”
It was then that I learned that the heart of man forgets, the heart endures, the heart will love again. Love was so easy as a child. You loved because it was all you knew. Maybe its because the hearts of children can be the purest thing. Then you grown up and find that people will love because you’re a certain way, because you have something valuable, they’ll love because you’re the next best thing. Its confusing to the pure heart. It seems to me as if the older you grow the less open you become to genuine love. You embrace a much more controlled kind of love where you’re conditioned to feel, think and react in a certain way to situations as opposed to when you’re younger and all caution is thrown to the wind. How could a pure heart possibly survive in such a restricted environment? Truth is we barely survive and soon we embrace the kind of “love” the world throws at us. We love people for what they can give us. For what they can do for us. We love people because they wear the hell out of a crop top, because they have an accent and because they hang out with a certain crowd. Sometimes when the heart yearns enough for that one place where it was whole and loved truly you’ll see that real love is in everything. And as much as the modern world tries to masquerade it, true love always finds a way. “Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.” ~Author Unknown. It flows freely through the tears of those who spend nights crying trying to figure out how humans can be so careless with those who genuinely care for them. You will see it in the face of an innocent child. You will find it thriving in a beating heart of the one who strives to make the world a better place for everyone who dwells in it. “Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence” ~Erich Fromm. It is embedded in our DNA an indelibly beautiful mark that all we cannot escape. You find love in a mother who goes without so her children will have. In a father working tirelessly for his family and staying true to the mother of his children. You find love in the moments you think no one could possibly love you and your friends prove you wrong. You find love in two lovers loving unconditionally and faithfully. You find love in relief workers risking their lives for others. Love is in you and me. Love is the basis of all creation.
Silvester Stallone said “I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that’s love, even if it doesn’t seem very exciting.”
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