Love – A World Without It

Most times we really don’t appreciate something until we don’t have it. We have this onerous proclivity to miss the value of things because we have them. In having things we begin to take them for granted because of their frequency and consistency in our lives. They ‘are’ just because they ‘are.’ And anything special or unique or valuable is often stripped of value because of our constant possession of them. Yet, when we lose these things their value becomes shockingly apparent only because of their absence.

So what if we removed love? What if suddenly this thing called love didn’t exist? What if there was no hint of it anywhere at any place at any time? I would wonder how different things would really be. It would be reasonable to guess that things would be dramatically different, so different that we might not recognize life itself. And if that is indeed the case, then love must be more powerful than we have come to understand.