"We're acting like we're here...We're not really here..."

Very often we become more deeply involved emotionally with the reality we create in our minds. Especially our fears. We take the things we fear, and tell ourselves that those things are more important than the things we experience on a day to day basis. Our fears can even become more important than the love we feel for another. We "fall in love with our fears", and give them more of our hearts and our souls than we give to the person whom we are connected to. And each fear causes more and more of a disconnect, until not only do we lose touch with ourselves and reality, but we ultimately lose touch with that person we love. The fear becomes love's substitute, and we fool ourselves into becoming okay with that. Sometimes in order to be strong, we have to accept weakness, and embrace it even, and be unafraid to travel through the unknown (love/pain), though we may be fearful. Only then may we find what we were always looking for. Us.

Love.

Love.What a word.The dictionary defines love as:1: strong affection, 2: Warm attachment, 3: Attraction based on sexual desire, 4: a beloved person, 5: unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for others. So many words that mean so little when compared to the all-out assault on our senses that love epitomizes. The sheer magnitude of emotional energy that love engenders. Love is omnipotent. It gives and it takes, it hurts and it forgives. True love is a delicate equilibrium of love and hate, measured out so carefully and precisely, that it's potential volatility relegates it to that rare class of existence which can only be described as unlimited. We've all felt it in one form or another. It transcends race, gender, language barriers, and any other idea of worldly understanding that could possibly be an obstacle to it's ubiquitous nature. War, injustice, triumph, peace, are all simultaneously caused and affected by love. we are all children in it's playground. What is love? Love is.