The great musician Elwood Blues once remarked before a show, “Remember people that no matter who you are and what you do to live, thrive and survive; there still some things that make us all the same. You, me, them, everybody…everybody needs somebody to love.” Indeed many of the great minds in history would agree that humans deeply desire to love and to be loved. Martel even refers to love as “the founding principle of existence” (63). Truly, love seems to be essential to the building blocks of what it means to be human. Those who express vast amounts of love we call saints and those who are devoid of love we call monsters. Yet we hold love even higher still, at times referring to it as a force which binds and intertwines all things. The fact that I can express love and receive love connects me with those around the globe who can do the same. Thus, humans swim in an ocean being rocked back and forth by the movement of the currents as they love and are loved. Love must be a terribly difficult thing for an agnostic then. Love requires hope in something invisible, faith in something intangible, and the belief in something unproveable. To explore the tragedy of never daring to plunge into the depths would require far more than one blog but I think Martel says in best in describing it as lacking imagination and missing the better story (64).
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Good point. There are many types of love, and each has its place in our lives. Each can make life better.
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