Duality of Love

The nature of love and affection is something that has always struck me as being contradictory. It seems that without it, we feel incomplete and isolated. We have the overwhelming desire to fill the void.
Once we attain it though, we become so frightened of losing the sensation that we no longer feel it. Instead we are too busy trying to maintain it to appreciate it.
We only seem to catch glimpses of it, and it is during those moments that we really understand its significance on who we are. I feel like recently I've caught sight of it a lot more, and as a result I am more scared than ever that I could damage what I have. I have this overwhelming need and desire for someone, yet the only reason I have it is because I am scared of what I am without that need.
It feels like love is basically us using someone else as justification for an emotion. Without them, we feel incomplete. With them, we feel scared of returning to incompleteness.
That we require another individual to resolve our own insecurities is more a reflection on ourselves as individuals than it is on us as social beings. Nearly all other emotions are able to be generated and resolved internally and without the necessity of a third party (although this often does help). Love is different though, and perhaps why it continues to fixate all of mankind.
I know I am in love, but exactly what that means will perhaps be forever a mystery to me.

A New Beginning

This is the first post on this new blog...how exciting...
I forgot that sarcasm isn't carried by the written word.

So I could try to start with a bang, but rather I'd like to start with an angry rant. They are so much fun after all.

This friday is muck up day for the year 12 students at my school, and I must say it always reminds me of my time at school. Egg-throwing, water bombs filled with paint etc.
Now though, it seems the fun is over; the end is nigh.
No flour bombs, because people could choke.
No paint because people could accidentally swallow it.
No fish oil because people have allergies.
No eggs because allergies.
No interrupting classes because learning is too important.

I know, its not an original thought but here we go: PEOPLE EXISTED FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS BEFORE WE BANNED FUN!!!

My parents generation did the following on regular occasions:
- Smoked 30 cigarettes a day
- Drank 10 beers, then drove home
- Ate fat, red meat, sugar and fried cheese
- Ran naked onto the MCG
- Swam unsupervised whilst drinking
- Threw eggs, water bombs, and flour bombs to celebrate the end of school.
- Interrupted peoples learning whilst doing many of the above.

Here's the interesting point though; that generation a) survived and b) is set to live longer than any other generation in history. Furthermore, they have been largely succesful in developing large portions of the world, have made incredible advances in technology and managed to enjoy themselves at the same time.

Now, maybe its just me, but I get the feeling that people tend to forget this and presume they have to protect everyone from everything. The only thing this will end up doing is over-populating the world with people that lack the sensibility to realise that nailguns require some training before being used. If you need to be told:
- Coffee is going to be hot
- Jumping off roofs is going to hurt
- Superman costumes don't let you fly
and so forth, then perhaps you're the sort of person that needs to prove that these are in fact true, by testing them yourself. How do we know that coffee is hot? Because idiots keep burning themselves. Without these idiots, we would never know what's bad for us. And if you don't take the lessons of previous idiots, then you are an idiot yourself. But the only way people learn is by experiencing. So let them experience.

We need to give people back their freedom to make stupid decisions. So join me, in the first annual Razor Blade Frisbee Olympics. Should be a hoot!