Laws Of Attraction


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May 4, 2004


Epistemological.

Don't mind me: I am a hard-core, card-carrying romantic. I believe in Love, absolute. I opine that if a given woman desires red roses and chocolates, then, by god, she should get them, because the odds are good she is somehow deserving of them. I believe Love can make the world, and even save it. I believe it is Love that makes us what we are, and owes much to what we become.

Don't mind me, really: I believe Love is not for everyone. If it were, would the concept of divorce even exist? There are some people, I hold, who are not deserving of Love's embrace, and the reason for this is because they are incapable of Love. They are incapable of Love because they never took the time to understand what Love is. Really is.

And the reason for that is because when it comes to Love, more often than not, they get off on the wrong foot: They willingly accept false notions about Love and what the pop culture definition of it is. They succumb to silliness and goofiness that is passed off as timely truth and fact. Because they do they fail again and again in the pursuit of Love, never coming to realize and accept that Love, absolute, is not something that is readily and easily qualified, and made concrete in a theatrical running time of ninety minutes or so.

Don't mind me, please: Despite my apparent cynicism in the matter of Love, absolute, I like films and movies about Love and the never-ending pursuit of it.

Especially romantic comedies about the time-worn cliche 'opposites attract'. Yes, this is proven true again and again, but it does little to assure the realization of Love, absolute.

When asked why it is I like such films and movies my response is thus: Because I want to see how it is at least two people can pursue something like Love, absolute, all the while having no idea whatsoever beyond what they have been spoon-fed what it is they are after.

The reason for this apparently sadistic behavior and practice on my part is because I believe that in order for one to find and achieve Love, absolute, one must recognize and accept the limits of their own knowledge in this particular arena.

In short: Don't overthink Love, absolute. Just let it be. Don't pick at it, don't poke at it, don't scratch it. Just let it be. Love, absolute, happens when one is not paying attention or even thinking, for Love, absolute, is the most irrational thing of all.

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1.   May 4, 2004 8:15 AM
Love is a wonderful, mysterious thing -- but few understand it -- including me. C'est la vie.

-- posted by humorous_sage



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