It is a Reason

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This article can't do justice to the subject of today.  But I'll share a few thoughts.  Love can be as powerful as cocaine to the mind.  Someone asked me years ago what love is.  Actually love is a motivating factor in all we do in life.  It's not just the addictive high of going from one love affair to the next.  That addictive high IS a drug.  But over time, love becomes a reason why.  Falling in love is easy.  Staying in love is the work and effort.  The drudgery of working every day is motivated by love.  For some it is the love of money.  For most, however, it is the love of just getting by.  

Some are motivated by the love of a spouse or children.  Every day people leave the comfort of their homes in order to make a living doing whatever it is they have chosen to do.  Some might not make much, but some of those love their work.  There has to be instilled in a person the love of work.  Starving artists still love their work.  As do musicians and the struggling actor, who thinks and believes that door of opportunity will never close.

Faith in oneself is a kind of love.  A person can love belief in opportunities that have not come.  But they believe it will.  After the SpaceX mishap the other day, I wrote a whole article about Musk's dream of going to Mars.  I have since deleted that post.  Instead I am posting this one.  Musk loves his dream, as he should.  A person can fall in love with a dream, as a person falls in love with a fantasy.

Sometimes love chooses and sometimes a dream chooses love.  Musk has embraced his dream.  This is what love does.  Love gives us hope.  And if one hope dies love brings another hope.  Love is the elixir on which the world thrives.  It can be love of money, or love of power, or love of a dream, and in the case of the quintessential working person, it is love of family.  For a military person, it might be love of country that motivates one to serve in the best way they know how.

Sometimes love chooses wrongly when one is bonded by love and all practicality goes out the window.  Sometimes love attracts people of opposite minds and sometimes people who are similar are attracted to someone who is simular.  But too often love is confused with lust.  Lust comes and goes, and over time people change.  Love either gets better or in some cases it dies.  

Tomes have been written about love.  Some say the Bible is just a great big love story.  Poets have written about love since the beginning of time.  Over 80% of popular songs are about love.  I can't do love justice here.  But more often than not love is out of our control.  Sometimes it happens the most when it's least expected.  Sometimes it grows over years and decades.  Sometimes it dies.  But there is no question that love makes the world go round.  

I can't say I love smoking a pipe, but I love the relaxation that smoking a pipe offers.  Tofay I am smoking my Peterson Sherlock Holmes pipe with my Tropical Export tobacco.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave 

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