Treatise on Love

True love is well known to be a rarity throughout the world. Our relentless search for “the one” in our lives can either leave us with a sense of fulfillment and happiness or a sense of despair and self doubt. Although I am a firm proponent of both the latter emotions I too must admit that love can fill a certain void in our lives. That being said it matters not whether or not the void is filled– what matters is what the void in your life is filled with.

Some loves are perfect from start to finish. Two star-crossed lovers meet under perfect circumstances and forge a relationship which others will envy. They share the same feelings, the same outlooks on life, and the same fervor for which they pursue one another’s best interest. These are the type of love that fill the void in one’s soul with incalculable amounts of joy, fulfillment, and everlasting happiness. The only negative outcome of this type of love is that it generates envy among those who have not or cannot experience it. Until recently this was a non-factor because perfect loves were terribly rare. Thus, the karma flow of the world’s love envy was always in balance because only a few envious folk got pissed off over the people who had actually succeeded where they failed.

In the modern era, however, this is untrue. Envy for these perfect loves has increased substantially. The past decade alone has seen an increase in nearly 5000%. Original hypotheses brushed off these findings, blaming the stark increase merely on a population boom. But as the numbers continued to climb the world had to accept the fact that another culprit was to blame. The reason for the sudden increase was the media.

In the information age mankind has found himself with a constant thirst for news– and entertainment. One of the most common motifs of any film, music video, or TV show is finding love; more specifically, the perfect love. This constant stimulus showing the ease of finding a perfect lover has brainwashed the populace into believing perfect love is something that anyone can achieve.

As the average person begins to pursue and anticipate finding their perfect lover they begin to get frustrated. Lover after lover fails to meet their expectations until eventually the void in search of love gets filled with something else, which this writer believes is generally a combination of hard liquor and pills or a significant amount of Drain-O.

As you can see the concept of Perfect Love has actually become a paradox in the modern era. Though it symbolizes the ultimate achievement of human nature its true result is the ultimate achievement of human “I’m gonna go kill myself because that dude I met while washing my car turned out to be a compulsive arsonist.”

The lesson we can learn from all this is that we need to completely tune out from the world around us so we can hide from its illusions. We need to destroy our televisions, cell phones, and computers so no information can reach us at all. The fact that you’re still reading this greatly disappoints me. Turn off your monitor now and heed my flawless wisdom before it’s too late!