Life, love, and all things in between
Life is finite, and while we all strive to live within the bounds of reason, some things are just beyond it. Like, perchance, the existence of deities, multiple universes, and love.
The nature of life is to endure living. Self-preservation is the only true instinct and it’s goal is immortality. Since all life is finite, the living achieves immortality through reproduction. From the simplest of unicellular organisms to man, there is no real substantial distinction. The successful sperm beats all others in fertilizing the singular egg, and armies fight for perpetuation of a certain civilization, ideology, race, religion, or way of life.
Pleasure during the initial stage of the reproductive process exisits because instinctively, life itself is gratified since it has started the path into achieving its main, if not its only goal. This is why during climax, we feel a sensation of immortality.
Therefore, during the period in life where the reproductive abilities are capable, life’s primal instinct is to always chase this sensation of immortality.
Love, on the other hand, is the opposite of instinct of self-preservation. Thus, true love often end in tragedy. If a parent sees his child drowning, he will do anything to save his child because of love. If there is no other way, love will tell him to jump right ahead into the water to try and save the latter. It does not matter if the parent does not know how to swim. Risking survival, and against life’s nature, love will take over life if it’s there.
Those “in love” often feel and say that the lives of the ones they love are more important than their own lives. Throughout history, countless poems, stories, songs and all sorts of art have professed this truth.
Love is divine. It is that which gives life the courage to face the uncertain, the unknown, and its end.
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