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The New Paradigm Of Love
not falling in, but realising it
Throughout history, love existed in the human imagination more than it was ever experienced.
It became the leitmotif of fairy tales, poems, movies and myths. I would even go as far as saying that it has been the cornerstone of our collective storytelling. The core around which we built the meaning of life, as years and centuries went by.
That’s one facet of love: the narrative. This narrative has, over time, created certain guidelines we abided by. For example, the one that true love must conquer everything else and thrive no matter what. Or, that there is a special person out there, with whom each of us is meant to experience true love.
But one of the guidelines prevailed more than the others. It was the underlying, unspoken message of all our love narratives.
Something that no one would question, as everybody was too absorbed with their quest of looking for love to question the basics. Love was placed so high on the ladder of human desires that it became the ultimate goal even among all chaos, war and disease bothering humanity. We were never concerned with making peace as much as with our search for the passionate, ever-absorbing and, quite honestly, addictive feeling.
