Love
Why is love made out to be so complicated. People say it is an emotion that we cannot control, but why not? What is it that makes everyone so vulnerable to love? Is it that we, as humans, strive for comfort, understanding and other human contact no matter how much we try to convince ourselves we don’t? I believe that deep down, we really don’t want control over our emotions. We may try to say that we do have control or that we want it, but we are only trying to fool ourselves. All throughout life we are searching for understanding, control, and anything that can keep us from not knowing. Why do you think there is religion. The only reason is because people as a whole fear the unknown. We don’t know where we came from so we make up believable stories to explain it. All throughout history this has been so. But this seeking for knowing-ness is wearing down our spiritual/mental state. We then search for a release so that our mind’s won’t implode because no matter how many stories we make up or how much we think we know everything, we never do. Eventually it all builds up and all we need to do is let go, we let go through love.
4 Responses
Lamp
Nov. 29/2006/4:10:06 pm
We are always afriad of the unknown. If we don’t know what will happen, we make stuff up, pull it out of our butts. Why do you think that the christianity religion is so screwed up as it is today? Anything we can’t explain, we try to avoid, even change. We just stick to the way of doing things because it was the way we were taught. If something later in life tells us that what we have been told is wrong, we fear that everything we were told was a lie. Then we would have nothing else to live off of. All knowledge as we knew it was dead.
We try so hard to find a fix, find some excuse, some master law of all that will make the puzzle pieces together. And in reality, they don’t, they don’t even come close to. We may have found something temporary, something that works for only a few problems, but nothing works for everything. Life isn’t a puzzle. If it was, we’d all be dead, because there wouldn’t be any purpose to it. We live to find, to search for the meaning. If you take that mystery or challange away, what else is there to live for?
miztrmason
Dec. 28/2006/2:30:43 pm
I have to say that I don’t agree with Lamp on a couple of bases. Firstly, is that we are not always afraid of the unknown. It wouldn’t be possible for us to be where we are today, if we hadn’t be curious about what we don’t understand. Secondly, is that Lamp said, “Life isn’t a puzzle. If it was, we’d all be dead, because there wouldn’t be any purpose to it. We live to find, to search for the meaning.”. That’s very contradictory. If there is no purpose to a puzzle, and we live to find the search for meaning, then how is life not like a puzzle?
Lamp
Dec. 28/2006/3:10:30 pm
I’m sorry that was unclear, I meant ‘puzzle’ as something that can be solved, something that a formula works for, something that is just generated, something that has a key. I probably should have used a differnet term. Thank you for pointing that out.
miztrmason
Jan. 2/2007/9:38:59 pm
Solving a puzzle isn’t even half of the process. The enjoyment of trying to put it together is what gives us the pleasure. The solving is just the feeling of a goal accomplished.