It has been on my mind. It is the cause of terrible injustice, and misunderstanding. What is it? The propogated idea, where ever it started, I know not, yet. In one word it is called happiness. on the other hand is suicide. It is frustrated and has been allowed to fester until the only obvious solution is escape.
People who actually try to understand, and actually do something are perplexed by the notion that someone so successful would kill themselves. The truth is that they, themselves, are on that same figurative ledge. Society has accepted that success in one unmodified word, means that you obtain things. It is believed that this is the ultimate goal of everyone. But, success actually refers to achieving our goals, not in the achieving some ultimate goal. I feel like I am just rehashing what songwritters have been trying to say in music for ages, maybe they didn't realize it though. I want to let you hear it from the source.
But, on second thought, I see the real conclusion was never reached. She suggests that Love can buy it (happiness) maybe. Ofcourse, most of us don't figure that out until it is too late. But, as the median age keeps drifting out older and older, the immediateness of choices might drift to the age where maturity starts molding the choice of companion, instead of attraction, sex, etc. right now, teens are finding themselves burdened with the weight of finding the right one for them, but divorce rates show that people believe they were wrong. I am not convinced that love really will provide what we lack, though, by definition, it might. If I define love as being the power to overcome. What on earth do I mean by that? I mean, the thing that we find that helps us overcome or endure every trial is love. So place them in an equation Love=Force needed to reach our goals and we say Love = Success. And so it does seem reasonable, but if that is correct then, finding it would be the most important thing (This was actually one of my best friend's favorite saying in high school "It is the Single most important thing...", and all sorts of other "sins" would become forgivable in lieu of obtaining love, rather than another truth Whitney Houston suggested:
Learning to love yourself > All other love. That makes alot of sense, but what is the point of money or beauty then if anyone can have love? It is used to trade, wouldn't it be cool if we only traded for the sake of interacting? But, among other things, I wonder how service fits in this whole paradigm. Or the commandment to love God with your entire being ( heart, mind, etc.). How can the goal be to find love and we find it in ourselves, and yet we must love others and God entirely? I think another song explains that question/answer well:
For the first time ever, I got a joke in the lyric "You're a God and I thought you would know." I usually take it so cerebrally and fit it in with all of the other things that the first person is realizing, because I always feel like I just don't realize the things everyone else holds as "self-evident" or common sense. But, this time I was listening from the point of view that maybe there is no contradiction in loving oneself and loving God entirely. And if everyone was God then yeah, nothing would be cumulitively impossible and everything would be known. I thought it was a good joke about you are God and I just asumed that makes you omnicient. Ok. I need to take a break from thinking any more tonight, Enjoy the music! that is not really a command, but a hopeful, suggestion.
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