A dear friend recently asked me:
What is love? Is there such thing?And why do we have to grow up? rusty and weary and slowly dying inside before the skin even wrinkles?
Why do we have feelings? and empathy? and mercy? and compassion?
Why do we need all that? do we even need all that?
But what is love?
I did not know what to say for a long time, until some recent inspiration. And this is what I responded:
Love is nothing.The best things in life are not the hardest to get to, they are the hardest to hold-onto.Fleeting, fickle, momentary, superfluous, fragile, effervescent.They appear, surprise us, enlighten us, delight us, disappear, re-appear, vanish.Life is not a linear journey. We do not grow up with time, constantly, minute by minute, incrementally.We grow up in bursts, sprints, leaps, bounds, quarks, anti-quarks, via transportation and displacement.We grow up with every scintillating, halting, experience of love, happiness, joy, empathy, understanding, appreciation, compassion, of humanity.Love is everything.The best things in life come from nothing, without them we are nothing.Naive. Thoughtless. Unloved. Inexperienced. Unfeeling. Robotic. Inhuman.With them we have everything, we are grown up, high, on cloud 9, in heaven.
Thanks in no small part to Julia for the inspiration, and Austin for the quantum confirmation.
Nomad-Odyssey 