More on, love

 

And so, starting with hate and love, it is not uncommon 

to consider love to be like an antidote for hate.  This

may be true, some what true, and maybe not true at

all.  Clearly the actions which are more based on

love are clearly different than those motivated by

hate.  But, of course, we often find ourselves in

a situation where it seems that there is kind of a

mixture of actions.

So that brings us to the place of , well, what is love

anyway.  That turns out to be an incredibly difficult

thing to really, kind of, turn into brass tacks.  We

certainly have ideas about it, and then you might

realize that what we are dealing with mostly is

on an emotional level, that it is difficult to associate

either words to, or have clear idea about, mostly

because emotions and idea are quite different.  So

when you think about hate, to nail that down, it

does seem like hate is mostly what love is not.

So here's the thing, the point, which is mostly

an opinion or personal perspective.  I believe, as

human beings, we are " naturally " in love with 

each other.  Some how , however , over time

and probably with significant effort, we have

established other behaviors, which make this natural

behavior, easier not to engage with.  Some of

this may be ways of thinking, popular social

discourse and a variety of things that just happen

in our lives and how we respond to it. A lot of it

has to do with fear, and things we have a genuine

reason to fear or maybe not even a very good reason.

So the simple idea, which is undoubtedly more difficult

in practice, is mostly, we have to allow ourselves to

behave in ways that are somewhat natural, but just don't seem

that way to us all the time.  Or, to put this another

way, we have to give ourselves the permission or

freedom to be loving.

Then we have the problem of why to they put the

'b' next to the 't' in doubt?

Maybe this is a bit juvenile and hard to chew at the same time ?