World Famine of Love
World Famine of LoveVenus Speaks
The world seems to be going through a famine of love…
There is an abundance, limitless abundance of love, yet people are starved of love.
A famine of romantic love.
Millions and millions of women lie lonely in their beds, wishing they had romantic love.
And about the same number of men do.
Some of these people are couples in the same bed,
yet each lies lonely. They are together, separately lonely.
They are at work, they walk around in the kitchen, they have their meals, they go out with friends, they walk on the beach, they look up at the stars…
All the while, millions and millions wish and pine for love.
The few who found love and live love don’t seem to help the others.
And the love-starved people don’t know how to find each other,
or they find each other but almost all don’t find love,
because everyone wants love but almost all are not giving it.
Everyone has it but almost all are not giving it out.
Romantic love, soul love, inter-race love
friendship love, family love, animal love.
Most people are better at the latter three, and hopeless with the first three.
How many people can you see show affection to their pets better than to their spouses?
How many people can you see treat strangers better than they treat their own family members?
How many people can you see turn up on time for meetings at work but are always late for their spouses or dates because they are not as deserving of consideration?
How many people can you see who care more for people in their own country and therefore prefer to buy goods from them rather than goods of the same or better quality produced by people from the third world?
How many people can you see who want love but do not do anything proactively to find it?
How many people can you see who confuse infatuation with real love?
How many people can you see who, having found and been attracted to someone quite wonderful, do not recognise it or find faults or lose interest and then go for someone else who cause them a lot of grief? And they still don’t recognise what’s happening?
I was once told by a wise friend that ‘
Human beings are flawed. We wreck good things.’
Another wise man (the Buddha) apparently taught about causes of unhappiness
being primarily‘attachment-love, greed, anger, delusion’.
I’m not certain of the translation down the centuries (2549 years ago, as at 2006 A.D.), but it is not about what the person exactly said –because of who he was, it is about whether these words make good sense. Certainly a lot of us are deluded about a lot of things….
How many people can you see who insist, maybe are deluded?, that certain rules and ideas are right, such as that older men and younger women are the only good match and men aged x on internet dating sites specify their ideals to be x-20 to x-1 years old –the '–1' being for their one upmanship? (is this at odds with the statistics that men die younger than women by 5-6 years almost globally and that many men are impotent earlier than women?), that women must be beautiful and slim and well groomed while the men demanding such qualities themselves sport beer belly and are haggard and slobbily dressed, that true romantic love must be love at first sight otherwise it can’t be love, that a match, again often on internet dating sites, is determined primarily by age, height, eye colour, hair colour, etc or that if-no-photo-first-I-won’t-talk-to-you-despite-your-other-qualities-and your-soul, that men are more intelligent and some men therefore complain of not finding intelligent women or publicly insult their wives and girlfriends –and vice versa, that sex is more important than love or that love is more important than sex, that people should while away years alone wasting those years before waking up at the age of near death door hoping to find a mate, that generalisation or stereotyping is ok or is the way to go, or that a mate must be all things in one person.
No one can truly claim any of these rules and ideas to be right, or wrong. Should we be well aware of possible delusion and therefore stop limiting ourselves by such imposed rules? Self-imposed rules at that. No, let's not blame ‘society’. Society is each of us acting alone at the same time while evading responsibility by blaming the mass.
How many people can you see who know very well that simply giving compliments, or other expression of any kind of love, would make someone happy hold back from doing so? Or couldn’t be bothered doing so? What does it take for such simple gesture? Why hold back from giving love?
What does it take for such simple gesture? Why hold back from giving love or allowing someone to feel happy?
An abundance, limitless abundance of love, yet the world is going through a famine of love…
Everyone has it, but who is giving it out….?
Venus Speaks
24-May-06
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6 Comments:
wow very nice and sweet
God's love will never ending...and He will gives His love to all people
How should people poactively look for love?
http://somethingfromme.blogspot.com
Real love is hard to find, it is true.
"what the world needs now is love, sweet love..."
that is true. but still, loving someone will never provide for being loved :/
Love is the action of lending one's "boundary" or "self-esteem" to another .
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