Hmmm, I think it would be good for this thread if I posted my theory of love, the universe, and everything, but I\'m afraid it isn\'t quite finished yet. And I doubt it\'ll be done until \"Xandria\'s Tale\" gets finished. Hmm, I should probably start on that one of these days...
So, I\'ll make this brief since it\'s too late for me to be posting (although I think some of my best posts came from very late nights) by being overly cliche:
\"Perfection is often sought, though rarely achieved\"
Okay...that really doesn\'t work well for this post, and I don\'t even know where it came from.
See the problem is that we as human beings don\'t really know what we want. Sure, we *think* we do, but how are we supposed to know that the things we feel for other people are really what we assume them to be? If you don\'t understand the problem, there\'s no way to come up with a solution. It\'s like trying to find the value of pi to the exact decimal; you could spend decades trying to find your answer, but you\'d never get to it. You might get really, really close, but you know inside that there is no definite answer; you just have to take whatever you can accept as being \"good enough\" and continue with life.
Where am I going with this? I really don\'t know. Maybe no one should even be in a relationship until they\'ve met every other human being on the planet at least once. Maybe I\'m saying we should forget the whole thing and just like like monkeys. What\'s the difference? Are we just animals, or is there something more? See now we\'re getting into religion, which adds a whole new spin on things. You\'re given some general pointers on what love is like and you\'re supposed to accept that and try to make your way in this world. But again, how do we know what is really love? Does it even matter? In today\'s society I begin to think that it means less and less to the majority of the popluation, given the ridiculous statistics you can find out there. It\'s sad to think, really. There was a time when divorce was practically unheard of. If there was a problem between a husband and his wife, they would work things out and carry on, not divorce each other and start looking for somewhere else to go.
But that was then, and this is now, and we are forced to deal with \"progress\" as it could be so grossly stated. How man sacrifices have we made in the name of \"progress?\" Is it really worth the degradation of society we are seeing occuring all over the globe? Will it ever stop? How bad are things going to get until the notion of marriage goes from being merely a formality to becoming completely non-existant?
Why don\'t we all just start loving one another, and spreading kindness and goodwill towards all mankind (and womankind too)? Can\'t we put our physical desires away, all the possesions, the desires, the lusts, the greed? Just put it away and focus on finding our true selves, and the trueness in others? Especially a single partner who you can swear to love and hold for all time until death do you part?
Am I just a lonely fool?
I hope not, for the sake of the human race...
