I think the most incomprehensible word in the English language is love.
It is a concept that sparks the most heinous atrocities and the sweetest acts imaginable.
Everyone's idea of love has one thing in common -- it is one of the deepest rooted motivations in our psyche, one whose origin we may not even be aware of.
"What I'll do for love," not just a song, or a poem, but something whose foundation begins before a child even has the ability to say the word.
It is the invisible carrot on a stick, the knife in the back, the holy grail and the match that lights the fire, not just in our libidos, but in almost every self righteous, or self sacrificing act along the way.
Depending on my interpretation of it, it justifies almost everything and it is harder to deny than anything else on earth.
Sometimes I think the most loving act of all is to step back and let go, but even then what is let go can rock eternity. If ever there was a word with the power to cause a nuclear reaction -- it is love.
It is a concept that sparks the most heinous atrocities and the sweetest acts imaginable.
Everyone's idea of love has one thing in common -- it is one of the deepest rooted motivations in our psyche, one whose origin we may not even be aware of.
"What I'll do for love," not just a song, or a poem, but something whose foundation begins before a child even has the ability to say the word.
It is the invisible carrot on a stick, the knife in the back, the holy grail and the match that lights the fire, not just in our libidos, but in almost every self righteous, or self sacrificing act along the way.
Depending on my interpretation of it, it justifies almost everything and it is harder to deny than anything else on earth.
Sometimes I think the most loving act of all is to step back and let go, but even then what is let go can rock eternity. If ever there was a word with the power to cause a nuclear reaction -- it is love.
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