I love you
Nietzsche, before confronting mankind with the heaviest demand ever placed upon it, wrote - "It seems to me indispensable to say WHO I AM". Such is the importance of the individual self. Once, a teacher asked his students in a casual gathering: "Who do you love the most?" Most were caught off guard; it is the kind of question one least expects while pursuing a degree in engineering. Very few answered. Only one student provided the response the teacher sought - "I love myself the most". Does that have an unromantic ring to it? Perhaps claiming to love a parent, a sibling, or a best friend sounds more poetic. Perhaps the "most" romantic sentiment is reserved for a partner or a spouse. WHY? Because it is fashionable. Loving yourself most is not. That which is fashionable is easily flaunted - and how we love to flaunt! We parade partners like trophies, fueled by a mediocre, desperate hope that it will grant us a sense of belonging in today’s status quo. It is a dire plea for endorsement - a cry to be seen by a world that views us only through the digital frames of a curated society. Such is today’s version of self-pity. A friend once said, "Love is a cheap word." When love is reduced to an object displayed on digital pedestals as a mere fashion statement, it renders your preciously framed idea of love cheap indeed. You must first belong to yourself. As Alice In Chains sang - "If I can't be my own, I'd feel better dead". Know who you are, and fall in love with yourself first. If you do not know yourself, no one ever will. And if you cannot grasp your own essence, it is foolish to hope you could ever truly know another. I say - "God is nothing but the most complex level of consciousness." Go celebrate your intelligence, your creativity, your empathy, and your energy by putting them into practice. You are the push that makes the world move. Be your best self. Be a God. No one can give that to you but you - and no one can take it away but you All boundaries exist only in your head. When you tell someone, "I love you," let it be without those boundaries. As the sentiment goes - "All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention, if only one can first conceive of doing so. Moments like this, I can feel your heart beating as clearly as I feel my own, and I know that separation is an illusion." Set the highest moral sanction you can conceive of upon yourself. Transcend all boundaries. It is only from this state of wholeness that saying "I love you" truly means something - it becomes precious.
May 10, 2015 • 3 mins read
