Love isn’t complicated; it’s the people that love, that make love complicated.
Musical: Hedwig And The Angry InchSong: The Origin Of Love…And Zeus said, “No,You better let meUse my lightening, like scissors,Like I cut the legs off the whalesAnd dinosaurs into lizards.”Then he grabbed up some boltsAnd he let out a laugh,Said, “I’ll split them right down the middle.Gonna cut them right up in half.”And then storm clouds gathered aboveInto great balls of fireAnd then fire shot downFrom the sky in boltsLike shining bladesOf a knife.And it rippedRight through the fleshOf the children of the sunAnd the moonAnd the earth…Last time I saw youWe had just split in two.You were looking at me.I was looking at you.You had a way so familiar,But I could not recognize,Cause you had blood on your face;I had blood in my eyes.But I could swear by your expressionThat the pain down in your soulWas the same as the one down in mine.That’s the pain,Cuts a straight lineDown through the heart;We called it love.So we wrapped our arms around each other,Trying to shove ourselves back together.We were making love,Making love.It was a cold dark evening,Such a long time ago,When by the mighty hand of Jove,It was the sad storyHow we becameLonely two-legged creatures,It’s the story ofThe origin of love.That’s the origin of love.
I‘m sorry but I had to do it. You can’t avoid the issue. I normally discuss things of seemingly greater importance, but love is also, if not more, obstensively pertinent. Life is not just world issues and what policies are being pushed for by various types of people. There is something greater at work–something that all humans can connect with. It’s Love. No matter what cleavage exists in a nation, or the fears held of effects of technology, modernization and western values, or the ethical rubber stamps applied to most conflicts, or the corporate bums of every creed and vernacular, almost everyone is seeking. The hope that we can find a common ground, despite our boundaries and whim for a safety net, is what keeps us holding on. But we continue to question, as have most philosophers, idealists, realists, novelists, scientists, theologists, etc.This song rides the idea of our finding another that would “fit” or “complete” us. Complete who we were, who we are, and who we will be. In the film, the song “The Origin of Love” incoporates the classical notion of a soulmate.Aristophane’s theory, characterized in Plato’s Symposium, states that “humans have been looking for their soul mate ever since Zeus cut them in half. In his mythic story, Plato describes a world where there were men, women and people who were both men and women.” According to the myth, the humans posed a threat to the gods because their intentions were to become like the gods. They were hatching plans to reach the heavens. To thwart the humans’ plans and establish superiority, the gods agreed with Zeus and cut the humans in half, condemned to eternally seek their opposite. The story says that “Zeus decided to enable each half to have intercourse with their opposite, symbolically creating a whole. Consequently, the males sought other males, the females other females, and the people who had been both male and female sought their other half, allowing population to reproduce.”This story is convenient because it explains the homosexual factor and heterosexual desire for an equal, and therein happiness. But it’s a myth. Isn’t it? Love isn’t, though: there is a general consensus. How could millions of people be imagining the feeling? Everyone can’t possibly be psychotic. Well, maybe.Every civilization perpetuates itself and the consecutive generations with stories of great feats and explanations for life–Life and its quirks, and its idiosyncracies. Ockham’s razor would say this is one such instance: throw out the bullshit and go with what’s simple ad makes sense according to what’s already know. But most of us all know about love, in one form or another, and its affectations. Love isn’t bullshit… well it shouldn’t be, but people tend to skew perceptions of what true love is and sincerity, etc. Sometimes the addiction is too much to handle, so it seems.”There is a prevalent concept in some segments of the New Age movement that some souls are literally made and/or fated to be the mates of each other, or to play certain other important roles in each others’ lives. These souls are thought to have created something in a past life and they have chosen this lifetime to help each other “heal.” Following this concept, one can have many soulmates. For example: One could see another person they have never met in this lifetime and instantly hate or love them because of previous interaction(s) with the other in one or more previous lifetimes. The most popular use of this concept is in applying it to those who were loved intimately in other lifetimes which were then found in this one. Also, being conscious of the “soul mate connection” is not necessary, according to this idea. And on the other end of the spectrum, the Soulmate Emotional Destruction Theory states that there is an “unfortunate reality that soulmates often possess the ability to inflict serious emotional injury unto their twin flame, greater than any other being could. This often results in the separation of idealized love, due to the severe emotional impact. Many soulmates are destined for an eternal search, not for lack of meeting, but rather lack of acceptance. The encounter is often analogous to the collision of matter and antimatter, a violent explosive reaction will occur, but if held through to completion only pure energy, and thus harmony, will result. Unfortunately few encounters are held through to completion.”I don’t know that I could say it any better. Reality is that we can all end up happy, at least usually. The opportunity exists and it’s that idea that catalyzes everyone else’s hope that [love] can exist for them too. Ideally, it would exist for everyone and everyone would be content, but the fact that it doesn’t always pan out (due to various reasons), throttles most to realize that it’s something to cherish because it can seem rare and unattainable. True and sincere love is something many talk about but few have seen. Economics teaches us about opportunity cost. If everyone ended up happy, the rest of us wouldn’t bother to fight for it. Why would you when you knew the inevitability? Hope is more than expectation.
