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The Journal of Jody Pratt Destined Truths
10/01/2011 12:53 a.m.
In the destined truths no one tries to lie, but to get there one must face every obsticle of defiance. It is in our nature and how we learn. To shun it is to turn ourselves off like machines. Fittingly, we often do this by turning on another. A TV or console, an mp3 player or touchscreen phone. Things that have existed in our culture for only decades ore less now consume our lives after thousands of years of us not yearning for them at all. No doubt TV, console and even mp3 are familiar words to you now. Yet the things we have desired as a culture since the dawn of man; love, companionship, family, understanding, compassion. These are but vague and mysterious phenomena in our lives. We struggle with finding love because we are selfish. Likewise, this is the cause of our individual downfalls. We all want more than we are willing to give because none of us feel we have enough to give, or perhaps nothing to offer at all. Do we feel worthless or are we simply greedy? Our lives are filled with a belief in scarcity and we begin to believe there is nothing in abundance. Despite oceans covering seventy percent of our home. Our water is dirty, our air smoggy and our food expensive. Yet not everything is scarce. Love is in abundance in all of us to give. It harvests understanding and compassion and all those other feelings we need. And when we explore our souls and mind; when we tap into this abundance of love, we discover we have too much. We need to give it away, and if we do it feels good. Yet we often hinder this beautiful freedom. We know so little of what makes us love and so we fear it. We fear the good sensation giving gives us because it comes without a price, and so we fear repercussion. There is no way to prevent love from hurting you. It is as sure to happen as life. Though if we never give our love, if we hold it in forever, then it spoils. Love comes infinitely, but unspent it will build up like a cancerous rot and slowly turn to anger and hate. The more this happens the less understanding we have, the further we get from peace and happiness. An equation as precise as any math. Sure as we need to eat and sleep we need to share our love. This is just one of those destined truths that we will all defy. Perhaps we won't all learn the truth, but for those that do, they can not deny. Love is all we need.
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| Posted by George Hoerner on 12/12/11 at 01:23 PM I am not sure that love comes as freely as you seem to believe. I believe that love, like lying, compassion, and other feelings are, at least to a degree, learned from those around us at a very young age. My parents were divorced when I was between 6 and 7. I lived with my father, just the two of us, until he remarried when I was about twelve. I don't believe I saw love except in Disney movies until I was much older so it was my model. Not a good one for me because mine never turned out like that and I always felt it was my fault. It took all too many years for me to learn what it really means and sometimes I'm not sure I know today. Words are very poor means of communication but they are nearly all we have. Everyone speaks of love and other feelings as if we all knew it the same way. Unfortunately that is the same with most words. I used to tell my kids that the sky was green and the grass was blue. They laughed and said I was crazy but I pointed out that words are intrinsic with the things we identify them with. We just are taught these things as we grow and they could be changed and are changed over time. Ask any woman what red is and she will let you know there are hundreds of shades of red and they all have different names. Most artists know this also but usually don't name them. They just change the shade as they paint to match the feeling they are trying to portray in the painting. Sorry, I won't bore you any further. |
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