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Love hurts. The power and depth of those two words, real or imaginary, has deprived countless numbers of people the priceless quality of love; relegating some wonderful people to live and die alone and lonely. Some people do not ever experience the emotional highs and lows, so important in coloring and giving meaning, and depth, to real life. Only by loving and losing love, can a person experience the sublime joy and the desolate, empty, and painful loneliness, associated with the loss of true love. It is better to bear the sorrow of loss, then never to have felt the almost mystical, and certainly spiritual experience of loving.

Exquisite pain in all its intensity, love has caused deaths as in Romeo and Juliet, madness like The Phantom of the Opera, and daily stories of motivation and greatness, as in our everyday relationships with our children and spouse. Joyous or hurtful, without love, the colors of life bleed away to black and white. A life without love is a result of choice, because only by a concerted effort, can such a life be attained. A choice predicated in fear of intimacy, because some people have been hurt and their trust in others so abused, it seems easier to isolate and avoid love, but it is not. Humans are genetically predisposed to be social creatures. Intrinsically, drives of survival in man are instinctual.

Love is not an instinctual survival tool. Love, however, necessitates the promise of future generations. Love makes the act of sex a wonderful experience, but is not a necessary ingredient in procreation. Love's value, is its ability to expand man's horizons. The power people have given love is legendary. God has often been described as love. The power of love throughout history has proven to be a driving force for good in the world. The power of love is so strong, evil has misled humanity to commit acts of destruction, using the passion, love generates. Helen of Troy, to the Crusades, and even the Spanish Inquisition where thousands died for the love of their God, are examples of love perverted by evil.

Like handing a child a loaded gun, love in the hands of people who do not realize the power, can get hurt severely. Seeing the world in black and white, highlighted with shades of grey, walking in the rain, but not feeling the drops hit your skin, and listening to stereo music in only the left speaker, simplistically exemplifies existence without love. Life is love; existence is everything else.

Pain is an unpleasant part of living.

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