"Love as depicted in the mass media is not what [true love] implies"
This quote given by Dr. David R. Hawkins taps into the understanding that "love" does not have a modern definition.
As human beings, we experience love in many different ways:
There's a love we share with our friends; we buy our friends birthday presents and provide companionship in times of need;
There's the love we share with our family; we cook dinner for our relatives and create a safe environment in which we can call home;
There's even love shared with our pets and our environment around us.
We see love flourish in our lives on a daily basis but when we start to share this love with a partner, the concept of commitment arises, as well as the question: "Do I really have this profound feeling with this person?" or in other words: "Do I really share love with this person"?
If this love is shown constant with our friends and family in our environment, then whose it to say it cannot be shared with a single partner?
Loving someone in the 21st century has cultured a new meaning of love. In the recent past, we have left our primal instincts of finding a good mate for the healthiest outcome of offspring and emerged into the era of finding a partner that: makes enough money, can provide service around the house, and possesses the inherent obvious of physical attraction. This is what we've so far identified as love.
While this type of love has been successful for our parents and grandparents, this type of love is now outdated for us as millennials. Once known as the "Baby Boomers" or "'60s, '70s, '80s, '90s kids" in America, "The Millennials" of the world now have the true definition of love in the palms of our hands.
If Dr. Hawkins is right and our pre-21st-century definition of "love" is not true, then the qualities we once deemed necessary in a mate no longer proves to be obligatory when finding the right person to love.
If this is the case, anyone we come across can be the right person to love.
Pause.
Loving someone in the 21st century has not only abandoned our primal instincts as humans but it has also moved passed the economical and physical attributes we once needed to survive in our then radically evolving society.
Loving someone in the 21st century has surpassed the meaning behind strawberry milkshake dates and now easily means something as seemingly meaningless as sending a cute "I love you" text message to someone across the globe.
Loving someone in the 21st century has forgotten the facts of basic life qualities (having enough money; having a safe home; having a physically/chemically/biologically/socioeconomically/naturally stimulating partner) and now just means finding common ground in our world's ideology. Instead of wondering how much total income we will receive or how attractive our babies will look, we ask each other deeper, more fundamental questions in regarding world politics, world religions, and world ideology.
Unpause.
The love we share nowadays stems from a higher intelligence taught to us in our ever-so advanced 21st century schooling systems as well as from a greater love once highlighted so greatly in our ancestors' religion.
The answers to the questions philosophy had us ask are ever-so present in our ideal world as 21st Century Millennials and it's because the majority of us don't have a worry in the world (about disease, safety, or financial standing).
We are truly lucky enough to have access to the greatest knowledge and wisdom we have uncovered so far.
It'd sure be a shame to see it all waste away.
Love has lead us this far: to the uncovering life's greatest mysteries all the way into the 21st century (and it's with a greater meaning we have rarely fathomed before).
Love lead us to the baby boomers, to the '60s kids, and now to the sum of us as millennials.
Who is to say we are the generation to make love finally enlighten everyone in our world on Planet Earth? Whose is it to know that it's true? Well, all I know is I'm saying it right now.
And if all is lost, then I am one of many to say: there's nothing better than falling in love.
