True Love

The Hollywood depiction of true love, and thus the depiction that most people believe in, centers around a guy spotting a girl (or vice versa) and immediately falling in love. They push through all the troubles and eventually end up together. If one of them dies, the other can never truly love again. They are fated for each other. And therein lies the problem. True love, the Hollywood depiction, at least, is a horrible, horrible, awful thing that first of all, is not true at all, and secondly, gives people the wrong idea. Firstly, I must discuss true love in general. It is a false lie, that unfortunately too much of the world believes in. Real love (which is what I will call it so as to not confuse it with the so-called "true love") is when two people of the opposite sex (yeah, that is a firm stance, and I can perhaps elaborate on that later) work hard together and grow to appreciate each other completely. Now, many of you are reading that I think: "that is such a small thing..." but really, you can barely comprehend the meaning of the phrase: "appreciate each other completely." That means to love them for every little thing that they do, and acknowledge them for it, and, on the same side of the coin, recognize all of their faults, and appreciate them for trying to work through them, and the willingness to be able to work through your own faults and in general do whatever it takes to make the relationship work. Now, this formula can work for any relationship: husband/wife, father/son, friend/friend. That is love. Real love is a marital love. Thats not to say that the other relationships are not "real," but its just a definitional thing to clarify. Anyways, under this definition, no two people are fated for each other before the world began. No two people were ever "made" for each other. A marriage can work between any two people of relatively comparably aged people (Id say plus or minus five years, but theres a little elasticity on that). So, on to the Hollywood definition. We've already addressed how false the fated issue is, but now I will explain why that is in fact an evil lie. Think about it: if you were truly fated to be with one person before time began, do you really have any choice in who you give your love to? The answer is no. This conclusion leads us to what the so called "true" love really is: a fake love. A forced love. In fact, it makes no sense whatsoever. How can you really love somebody when you have no choice in the matter? Secondly, and probably less importantly, I would like to clear the air of the "seeing each other across a crowded room" theory. Hollywood likes to call this "love at first sight," and they might even jump right into "true love." As an aside, I say Hollywood, but I use that to represent the ideals that seem to flow from that wretched land of two-faces and lies (see Greatest Song Ever List #4 Californication by The Red Hot Chilli Peppers). I could be calling it Babylon, or Rome, if that makes any more historical sense to anyone. My point is that it is an evil institution that preaches false doctrines. Which brings us back to love. "Love at first sight?" No, the correct term is "attraction," or perhaps "infatuation." Now I bring all of this up because I see far too often in this world believing that these things exist. People honestly put their lives on hold for one person because they believe that they are "fated" to be together, or because there was some kind of "magical" spark the first time they saw them. These are false preachings given to us from Hollywood. A good portion of our fairy tails involve this notion of true love. WE TEACH THIS TO OUR CHILDREN? This fake, lying, misery-bringing promise? I cannot let this continue. So I have done my part today. I officially declare to the world in the only way that I know, that I know, that the so-called true love does not exist. In fact, we can find love with anyone, and we can find real love with any comparable partner of the opposite sex who is of a relatively comparable age. All it takes is a lot of work and dedication, and I promise to you that when devoted to it, the benefits dwarf the expenses.

Blessings:
TV. Sorry, this sounds really lame after what I just wrote, but I have been at college for a while without television, and I just got to watch a little of it for the first time in a long time, and it made me feel like I was at home. It really is a nice little invention.