Love
can be as broad or narrow as you make it. Love can be all-encompassing or
elitist. Love can include everyone or only a select few. Love can be a choice.
Love is not just chemistry and something that 'just happens', or something that
has to do with family and close friends. Love - due to its potential magnitude
and significance in our lives, its effect on our physical, emotional, and
spiritual well-being, and growth is a subject I have written about frequently,
and you can find numerous articles about it on my website and blogs.
Life
is meant for the living (nothing new there), and living - really living -
implies loving. Loving implies showing you love, which we all do in a myriad
number of ways, by physical demonstrations, by kindnesses, by gentleness, by
nurturing, by giving gifts, by giving help, by caring for someone in times of
illness or ill fortune, by saying certain words and making certain gestures, by
showing joy when we reunite with people we love whom we don't always see, by
doing unexpected loving things for someone who is not always at our side, and
so on.
We
know all this ... so what's
the point???
Do
it.
That
is the point. We know it all and yet we so often neglect to do it simply
because we don't have the time, or we're tired, or something else comes in the
way. And yet a loving smile or gesture can mean so much to the one who receives
it.
Do
it. Never stop doing it, show your love to those you love.
And
you know, there is an added benefit...it makes you feel better too, and,
according to all the studies I have mentioned in previous posts here and in
articles discussing happiness on my website, the
mere action of being loving gives
you happiness as well.
But
let's examine a much more vital point that you may wish to consider: if you
have read my previous articles and posts about the concept of intertwined
molecules, you
may have come to realize that we are all indeed one ... humanity is not a mass
of separate beings (rich, poor, black, white, first world, third world, young,
old, good neighbourhood, wrong side of the tracks, and so on), but a mass of
intertwined molecules ... we have cutting-edge quantum physics to thank for
these insights, and that of course, begs the question: why only love those that we love?
If
you think that is a strange question, consider that loving only those that you
feel emotionally close to, automatically implies that all others are 'out
there'; are 'others' - it's 'them' and 'us', and thinking in this manner will
never ever lead us to any kind of common humanity, kindness and compassion,
because it will always mean that it's the Palestinians against the Jews, or the
Christians against the Arabs, or the Protestants against the Catholics, or
white against black, or Socialist against Conservative, or Republican against
Democrat, or the haves against the have-nots, or the young against the old, or
the thin against the fat, or the educated against the college drop-outs, or
those that managed to get themselves a membership in the country club against
those that did not, or those that like opera, theatre, classic music, or art
against those that do not, and so on. There will never be a true end to these
differences that exist among us all in this global community if something
drastic on a very fundamental level in each and every one of us does not
change. It was Gandhi who said: be the change you wish to see in the
world, and that is precisely what it is implicit in my article this month.
This
is not an impassioned plea for some puerile and idealistic version of hippie
love, but a cry for awakening. I'm not pretending that I have woken up and that you,
who read this, need to do
the same. We all
need to wake up. If we want
to change this world of ours, if we want peace, freedom, dignity, food, water,
and education for all, it needs to begin with each of us. Instead of merely
loving those with whom we have an emotional connection - instead of
only loving those that we
love - could we
not begin to think more broadly and move ourselves into a new paradigm of what
love really means? Could
we not conceivably love all?
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