Most of us are introduced to the concept of Love when we are born and are fed and played with and shown affection. I don’t understand how this love that we are introduced to in the beginning slowly forms and flows through our veins. We hang onto this concept of love because if we don’t we die.
It’s extreme but if you seriously sit down and think about it you will soon realize that a life without love slowly and surely dies. And not only would you die but the culture that we live in would die as well. We are in a culture of wanting to be independent yet we yearn for a love that NO ONE can deny. This idea of independence that we hear from our parents, from our schools and from our relationships, only leads to one thing...death.
You cannot be independent. The reality simply does not exist. Here’s why. You depend on a job to provide you money in which you depend on your boss to give you hours to work. You depend on the sheet that says you have hours and you depend on getting paid every other Friday. You rent a house/apartment. People are depending on you to pay the rent. Any simple transaction is a cause of dependence. You are depending on a good or service to be delivered and they are depending on you for the money of the delivery or service.
Every person in the world is depending on something or someone. If you decide to go out in the wilderness and not commune with one person you still depend on the soil for your fruit. You depend on the wild game around you to provide you the sustenance that you need.
You have no independence in this world whatsoever.
You are incapable of making a small decision by yourself. Let’s say you are going to college. You are influenced by your parents, by your peers, by your belief system. Your background and your moral standing have decided things for you. If you take the argument of not having a moral standing you now depend on the idea that you have no moral standing and that makes your decisions for you.
You have no independence in your thinking.
North America has created an illusion. They have told you that you can make your own decisions. They have lied to you and allowed you to buy into a product. Individualism is a product that America sells quite well. "You don’t need anyone", "Just do it",
The drive to attain independence through a constant self-centered striving is obscenely ironic. As we strive-as we climb that cliched, metaphorical ladder, we rely on the rungs to propel us forward.
Step one, we are reliant on air to fill our lungs and gravity to hold us down.
Step two, we rely on food to grow and the store to sell that food and the government to keep making money so we can buy the food.
Step three, we rely on our parents or someone to care for us and teach us how the world works.
Step four we rely on someone to give us a chance in the world
that we are so apt to become independent from.
Step five we depend on our environments to create where we will go next and what steps we need to take to achieve our ultimate goals.
Step six we find someone or something to take care of our emotional and physical needs and we become inherently attached to him/her or it.
Step seven we work until we are ready or until someone else thinks we are ready to retire and we depend on our pension to provide for us until we die.
Step eight our environment finally destroys our physical being and we reach the end of deteriation.
Step nine we depend on our children, close relatives, close friends, or co-workers to bury us and to honor the short and mundane lives we have lived. Whether it be a slow and corrosive disease, a night time escape, or a tragic ending we all die. All the things we work for are remembered for a while and then they die along with our name.
So what is the answer, and why is love the ribbon that ties everything together?
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