Journal 12403
Love is but an idea, but a required idea in order to live. Without love, a human will die. I used to wonder whether those stories of people dying of a broken heart were true or just a way to place blame upon someone for a death. However, lately, I’ve found that without love, without something to set your heart upon, there is no life. The second a person stops allowing love in his life, this person starts to die. He may not feel it at first, or he might, but he is dying. It seems that a person really does have three parts: mind, body, and spirit. Each is connected in some way to the other, and if one starts to die the others will follow. A person is not alive without all three functioning. Most people know that exercise helps mental thought, which is why it is easier to think when walking and thus people pace back and forth while thinking. So, as exercise links body to mind, so does love link soul to body and mind. The moment I decided myself upon keeping the one love I had out, I felt weak. I thought that was simply because I had left a hole in my being and, since I had done without emotions before, it would go away soon. However, it didn’t. That weakness spread out so that it was no longer just a feeling, but a force pulling me down. Every time I tried to do work, there was this irking sensation that just seemed to keep me from even trying. I would just lie around. I didn’t want to leave my room; all I did was just read.
Love is necessary. I now know why I never felt like a human, why I never was able to understand humanity, when I cut myself off from my emotions, especially love. Love is what makes humans humans. Animals care about their offspring and they develop relationships, but solely for the purposes of survival. They have sex because they focus on keeping the species alive. Even dolphins, who scientists believe have sex for pleasure, have sex either just for pleasure or for passing on their genes. Humans are the only animal that has sex for love. They are the only animal that truly love their offspring. We don’t care for our offspring because we need them to grow up and pass on the genes. We care for our children because we have an attachment to them called love. This love fuels our lives and gives us a reason to live. Without love, we all will die. How am I going to find love I wonder? Maybe I don’t need the people I love to reciprocate, maybe all I need is a reason to live, to have that thing to love, and the reciprocation would just be an added plus. But I guess we’ll just see…
Love is necessary. I now know why I never felt like a human, why I never was able to understand humanity, when I cut myself off from my emotions, especially love. Love is what makes humans humans. Animals care about their offspring and they develop relationships, but solely for the purposes of survival. They have sex because they focus on keeping the species alive. Even dolphins, who scientists believe have sex for pleasure, have sex either just for pleasure or for passing on their genes. Humans are the only animal that has sex for love. They are the only animal that truly love their offspring. We don’t care for our offspring because we need them to grow up and pass on the genes. We care for our children because we have an attachment to them called love. This love fuels our lives and gives us a reason to live. Without love, we all will die. How am I going to find love I wonder? Maybe I don’t need the people I love to reciprocate, maybe all I need is a reason to live, to have that thing to love, and the reciprocation would just be an added plus. But I guess we’ll just see…