Saturday, March 18, 2006

   I was flicking through a magazine the other day, and there was this heading reading ‘10 WAYS TO STAY YOUNG AND HEALTHY LOOKING’. Looking at it I thought right I’ll bite, what new pathetic strategies are they trying to sell to the vane these days, in the list was the usual, until I can across ‘Fall in Love’. Damn I couldn’t believe it as if it wasn’t already bad enough the amount of romantic comedies that are consuming entertainment these days its now a new way to stay young.

I’m the type of person who doesn’t believe in love, and before you get any ideas, no I haven’t been dumped or rejected, I’ve felt this way for as long as I can remember. I just believe why complicate your life with unnecessary issues. As I’ve gotten older my beliefs against love have only intensified. It was bad enough that I couldn’t find a decent TV program that wasn’t dealing with the teen drama of love, than my family would start talking to me about how it was only a matter of time before I would change and find some one, than the final draw came when friends started giving me those talks about finding that special someone. So I decided to try to work out what the hell was wrong with these people.

Well here is my conclusion, there is one thing that everyone in this world has in common we are all afraid of living without existing. Ok that sounds really strange, but I believe that everyone, whether conscious or subconscious shares this same drive for immortality, which lets face it unless you believe in reincarnation there is really no way to live forever. Although if we are to leave marks in this world no matter how little they are we will be remembered and therefore create a form of immortality. What better way to leave these marks and prove our existence than becoming unforgettably famous or having a family, and leaving people that will not only cry over your grave but spread your memory. Ok so becoming famous or all powerful is a pretty popular method, although as Dickens showed Scrooge in ‘A Christmas Carol’ power will not get immortality if no one cries over your grave, so hey love it is.

By now if your not to bored to read on you’re probably thinking right were does the anime come into it, well it pretty obvious that most anime have this love connected with existence theme somewhere. Vampire Hunter D – Bloodlust has this within it.
Evangelion is another pretty obvious one, as it not only questions our existence but it helped inspired my theory.
Fruits basket is one that thrives on love as most of the characters use Tohru’s love for them as validation. They now have a reason to live and peruse an existence.
Any Stand Alone Complex fan will have at least heard of Catcher in the Rye, if not read it, with both the series and the novel sharing the same basic theme. Salinger had the ability to create this perfect character, Holden was so damn convincing as the non-conformist, he didn’t pull any punches is creating that pessimistic attitude that may him an individual within society, although like so many other characters he gave up on his individuality by playing into the restriction of falling in love.

What I really hate about love is that while ever you love someone, you have something to protect therefore you are vulnerable. You are controlled by the fact that what you do could ultimately hurt that someone.

I had this friend who I was always discussing philosophy with. Anyway we use to be forever arguing about whether one could isolate themselves from society, I always believed it possible, but she always maintained that with sharing similarities and being recognised we could never become completely isolated. After thinking through it for ages I finally came to the devastating fact that maybe she was right. We all strive for existence and immortality and from the way everyone acts around me its obvious that love is the only sure fire way to achieve this. Therefore while ever I had that subconscious yearning for immortality I would always be faced with the threat of falling in love. And therefore I could never strike out and achieve absolute individuality, because not matter how different I was physically and psychologically I would still share that same reason for living as everyone else.

So my question here is ‘Do you agree that love is are answer to immortality or just a method of control, to ensure no matter what we will never achieve absolute individuality?’

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