We Love Love.
It’s all you need.
“All I’ve got is nothing but a little bit of love” — Matt Shultz, Cage the Elephant
The more I go on, the more I realize how much we as humans are focused on love. Whether it’s self love, attention from family, appreciation from friends, recognition from co-workers or bosses, or adoration from a partner/spouse/etc., all are some form of love. Some may be harder to obtain or recognize than others, but all revolve around the same very, VERY basic concept: feeling a bond between you and someone else.
In my opinion, love, at its pure basis, is a bond. A positive bond between you and your self image, creating a love for yourself. An emotional bond between you and another person. An affinity for something. I may be wrong, but that’s how I see the very basis of this extremely vague and beautifully complicated concept.
No matter how much we try to deny it, every day we are thinking about love in some way, shape, or form. It’s subconscious (not necessarily Freudian, but if you want to go there, go ahead…to each his own!); it’s ubiquitous; it’s such a small word that permeates so many aspects of our lives. I think there’s most definitely something behind the fact that there’s a one letter difference between the word “loving” and “living”.
So keep on loving and keep on living, because what are we without some kind of love in our hearts, after all?
