fahye | (no subject)

Love is not enough. I don't think it's enough to live by. I think creation is what we need, what defines us as being alive. Creation and original thought, and maybe compassion and probably fallibility. I think all we can do is open ourselves up and let the world bombard us with words, ideas, experiences. You can live by your own created ideas, if you act on them - that's why religion can be enough for some people. If it's strong enough. If it fills all of their gaps. The rest of us can just stand here with our arms out and hope that something hits us and fills a gap perfectly (or imperfectly; you can survive quite easily with imperfection), or else we can actively seek out the pieces that are the right shapes to fill and fulfill us. We create ourselves. We create the world we perceive. There is no excuse for stagnation and apathy, except that you have stopped creating. Love helps, sex helps (it's about fitting together matching parts - filling gaps, crudely - and also about creation, which I hear can't be divorced from it in spirit even though they've been entirely divorced in practice), but again, I don't think they're enough. I think we are only truly alive when we are creating our own worlds with words and hands.