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If we love?

You might not want to read this post, we are living in the 21st century and most of us have forgotten the word love. I have forgotten. I have forgotten many things, or have we all forgotten what love is? I'm not out to bash you over the head with religious dogma, nor am I out to acquire something that you cannot give me, but I never want to forget that humanity can be something that it has never been before. I'm talking about you and me. There once was a time when things were easy, that time wasn't too long ago. We were stuck in concern for the person across the street, the person in our church, the persons in our home. But we lost something in all of our efforts to better myself we have lost compassion. Progress means to go forward but how do we go forward when we don't even know who we are and what we were made to become? This isn't a trick question.

My guess is that you are happy with your life. I used to be happy but my happiness was something that I took for granted. I used to see things the way you see them. I am hoping to see them that way again. I think that we can become so lost in our hatred of the things that are not right that we fail to see that there is truth that can set me free. Truth that is right in front of me. Truth that if I just open up my eyes and look through the darkness I might just remember a time where I was free. Darkness is all consuming in a heart that does not recognise unconditional love. Darkness that forgets the past and only thinks of the future, darkness that only recognises the here and now, and delights in the shadows of some great plan for this earth, despite the fact that we have forgotten how to love. I live in this darkness, I was born in this darkness, but I do not plan to live in this darkness for a second longer. Darkness brings light.

We were born to love, we were born to love the light. But we love darkness, so we hide from the light because our deeds are evil. We prefer to live in this darkness and some of us will leave this world in darkness. Words bring truth. Imagine for a moment that you can be happy, imagine that happiness is free, imagine that the happiness you feel right now will die someday, where will we be? If I tell you that I am wrong, that I was deceived in writing these words, we can't stop time. But we can remember that love was free. I haven't expressed what is truly in my heart, nor would I try to do this hear, but when I look you in the face tomorrow, I'll pretend I wasn't here.

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