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JP Senior Member
since 1999-05-25
Posts 1343Loomis, CA 
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It's not so complicated, when you really think about it. This thing called life. There are really only two points to remember, survival and love. With those two things, you pretty much have everything figured out. Survival is number one, simply because that without it, well... hell, we wouldn't be here! I suppose it took me a few years to realize that just surviving counted for a lot more than what most people believe it does. Many folks somehow feel that merely surviving is deficient in the greater scheme of things. I assert that it qualifies for much, much more. Survival in and of itself is a momentus achievement. To go through our existence, dealing with the curves and dips, the turmoil, strife and everything else that comes our way... to live through that, that is a grand accomplishment. Love, the second point, really makes anything worth while. Love in all its forms: Love of art, logic, people, family, friends, food, etc. This is the reason for our initial survival. Love of anything is important. It is that which gives us passion in our existence, it is that which adds flavor to this life. Love, in and of itself, in any form is the only reason for surviving. To love someone makes our personal world better. To have passion in something, or someone, makes existence and survival not merely bearable, but pleasurable. To wake up each morning and think to yourself "I love ____", THAT is what makes everything worth anything. So, you're sitting there thinking: "Survial and love? What a crock!" Possibly, you are right. Possibly there is some other, greater, cosmic reason for us being here. Perhaps someday we will be given the clue to why we are here. Perhaps, just possibly we will discover that the only reason for our being here is for us to decide what that reason is. In any case, I will continue to count survival and love and the two reasons for our existence. It's simple really. Yesterday is ash, tomorrow is smoke; only today does the fire burn. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
hEY....survival, uh uh. I don't discount it as a miracle for a second. Well, not for a second of CONSCIOUSNESS anyway. The only thing in my life that I consider more of a miracle than my own survival? Is the love I have been priveleged to receive. Well said, JP. More applause. (or does that bore you?  ) |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Sometimes if we get past the complexity, back to the simple, it all becomes quite understandable... |
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JP Senior Member
since 1999-05-25
Posts 1343Loomis, CA |
You can applaud all you want Serenity, I love it. In fact I'm in the middle of a standing ovation right now.... uh, wait... I guess that isn't exactly an ovation....  heheheYesterday is ash, tomorrow is smoke; only today does the fire burn. |
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Kethry Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-29
Posts 9082Victoria Australia |
JP, simple, or at least you make it sound so.Well done! Kethry Here in the midst of my lonely abyss, a single joy I find...your presence in my mind. Unknown |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
cute. |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
I think we're here to 'be'..that's all. Nothing earth shattering. I like the way you write JP.  |
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Gemini Senior Member
since 1999-12-15
Posts 1203Wisconsin, USA |
Very thought provoking, without the passion in our lives for life or love, it would indeed feel very empty and void. Excellent read. |
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fractal007 Senior Member
since 2000-06-01
Posts 1958 |
An interesting didactic piece you have here. Your statement about survival being an end in itself and love being a reason for survival may be contradictory, but I don't know. In any case, this was an interesting post. "If history is to change, let it change. If the world is to be destroyed, so be it. If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh" |
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JP Senior Member
since 1999-05-25
Posts 1343Loomis, CA |
Contratictary? Me? Contrary maybe... contrite possibly... confused, most definitely... but contradictory? Hmmmmm.... Yesterday is ash, tomorrow is smoke; only today does the fire burn. |
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