What We All Crave

In Life I find there to be one essential thing. Even in comparison to food, water, and oxygen this is more essential to survival. What every person craves in this world and is incapable of living without, is love. A person will spend a life-time searching for love. Be it from a parent, a lover, or a god. Entire lives are wasted on this one endeavor, for example Romeo and Juliet gave their lives in hope that they at some point in time would be together. A set of individuals who were denied their feelings, found their way through death. There are thousands of stories that have been told about martyrs who have given their lives to their god or some cause. This is a result of some form of love and some attachment.

Suicide is a rampant plague in the world and most of these sad endings start with their inability to be loved or so they feel. They for some reason were unable to find, that god, that woman, that parent who would love them back to life. And this failure to find love has resulted in an unpublished life.

If you were to think about, why you are where you are. And consider why your life is the way it is. It can almost certainly be contributed to the fact that you have followed some love, some passion, and have ended up where you are. What's amazing is, the things people will go through to feel loved and accepted. Some people will go through an entire wardrobe change and a complete paradigm shift, just to fit in with the cool crowd, and if they cant make it there they find other places to feel comforted.

Mind you this is not some speech about free-lovin' and world peace. It is more-or-less confronting some of the issues we all deal with. My main point in writing i this is to say that love is a choice. It's not some puddle you accidentally fall in and say "Ah crap, I got love all over me!" It's something more. It's something we all face and we all seem to confuse with acceptance and attraction. Love is undeserved. It's gentle. It can be both your downfall and your saviour. You must choose to chase love. This doesnt mean you have permission to stalk that girl or that guy you've been "SO IN LOVE WITH" it just means, you must follow your passions. And often times those passion don't come without hardship and resistance. You have to fight.