What motivates you?
A common interview question is “What makes you get out of bed in the morning?”. This question is very important because it is how the interviewer determines what kind of work ethic we have and what source it has. Every act requires motivation. Motivations come from many places whether it is the pursuit of a long-term good that we are after a greater good than can be attained in the present or the pursuit of a short-term good which are often fleeting and don’t require much effort.
Pain and pleasure are good motivators because without them we would walk on our broken leg or not have reason to pursue goals. We are all protagonists in our own story, and consequently, what we consider good may not be in our best interest nor those of others. There is one motivator that cannot fail, which joins all people together, which operates in the face of pain and the absence of pleasure, and which does not require a specific long-term or short-term end i.e. love. Love as we define it knows no limits only personal dignity and its boundaries.
There are countless forces that cause us to separate and two the can join one. The first only has the potential to unite i.e. common interest. In such a relationship the binding force is mutable. The second force is love which if it is actual, is not mutable. Further, if the is any unity that stands the test of time/the change of conditions it is love. Love, thus, CANNOT be a quasi-sexual attraction based on feelings because feelings change. Society’s deception of what love really is, is the reason sex is deprived of its meaning/value, divorce rates soar, and why ignoring criticism/admonishments is encouraged. "Accept nothing as love if it lacks truth and nothing as truth if it lacks love".
In conclusion, are we capable of the non-feeling edition of love? Are we willing to love when it is not easy and when we want to give up? Do you want people to give up on you when you need the hard kind of love? As we asked last week, can love be real if it is not the hard kind? What motivates you to love others? The world is in a crisis of love our culture recommends detaching oneself from this kind of love labeling it as not love at all but hatred and that love (as they mean it) means self-based positivity. Love becoming totally self-serving what difference is left between it and the justification of hatred. Go, therefore, and save the world from itself believe that love requires us to go beyond ourselves!
Picture: The picture is the symbol of the "pious pelican". Before science was able to study the species up close, pelicans were thought to harm themselves to feed their young. Although it proved not to be the case, an accurate symbol remains an image of Divine love.
