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[fahye]

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.

Comments

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

You may not need it to live, but it sure does seem to be a staple of mental stability.

[dopplegl.livejournal.com]

I'm so not sure what to say. I mean, I sort of agree with this, but then at the same time, to certain people, love is enough. Love is the thing that helps them to create and helps them perfectly fill gaps and is what makes them feel truly alive.

[voleuse.livejournal.com]

I totally, totally agree.

[rameshki.livejournal.com]

Deep, profound and a good set of thoughts.
You raise a valid point.

[dunkywunky.livejournal.com]

I say .. very good rant old chap!

[sanguia.livejournal.com]

I disagree entirely. Creation is nothing without love. Creativity is at the core of everything I am, it's something I live for - but that life, and anything created in it, would be totally hollow and meaningless without the experience of love.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

See, I'd take the opposite viewpoint: love is nothing without creation.

(I didn't know you were still kicking around LJ, my dear!)

[sanguia.livejournal.com]

That makes me feel a little sad for you. I think we have different experiences or concepts of love. Agree to disagree, dude.

[izumihydra.livejournal.com]

I find this interesting, but at the same time entirely foreign. I don't create anything to any significant extent, and by your reasoning that would make my life meaningless, and me unfulfilled. As I'm entirely happy with my life and what I've achieved, this seems kind of faulty. What gives my life meaning is love, yes, but most centrally and perhaps without comparison is understanding. It's what I live for, it's what I strive for - to understand as much about as many things as possible. Perhaps sharing that understanding with others is fulfilling too, in the same way I find people fulfilling more generally. But creation has little if any part in that. I think what you've expressed might be true for what you live by - but it certainly isn't for everyone.

Oh, there are times when your insights evoke me so to wish to do naughtx-rated things to your brain.

[azraeljt.livejournal.com]

no, really. There are times I love you.

Love is two beings creating and dreaming and seeking together..
Love is a part of creation as much as creation is a part of love. They are useless without each other.
You cannot create without loving your creetion, you cannot love without creating it.


I pit those who settle with imperfection.