“Love makes the world go around” was true when it was first
uttered many years ago and remains just as true today. Love is
what everybody is after. So much time is spent discussing love,
reading about it, watching movies about it and singing about it
that if all that time were spent on any other problem, it would
surely have been solved a long time ago. Relationships with
others are the vehicle through which people find love and,
hopefully, preserve it.
Since the beginning of time, themes of romantic relationships
have dominated the stories we tell. The first and most well
known Bible story is about the relationship between Adam and
Eve. The story goes that Adam was alone in the garden and begged
God for a companion. In the Bible, God created man, but man’s
humanity was not complete without the love of another like
himself. This basic human value is reflected in religions across
the globe, and in our secular stories as well.
Nowadays, relationships, their creation, preservation, and
demise, have spawned numerous multi-billion dollar industries.
Everybody has a book to sell, a movie to screen, a song to sing
or a course to offer on the subject. There are workshops to
take, therapy sessions to experience and training to undergo to
keep things working smoothly. And if all that fails there are
squadrons of hungry divorce lawyers and judges to make things
come to end – happy or not.
Woody Allen has made dozens of movies exploring relationships
and in the end his philosophy can be summed up with the
prophetic words, “Relationships are painful and they all end too
quickly.” The classic sci-fi novel, 1984, has as its main
premise the idea that in the future there would be no need for
what we now call relationships, just a government sponsored
pairing up system to preserve the natural order of things. And
even in that society, the books main characters sneak off to
have some good old fashioned relationship fun, which ultimately
gets them in trouble with Big Brother.
Why all the fuss? What drives people to behave in this most
unseemly and dangerous manner just to hold hands with someone
and cuddle up on a cold night? For, the answer to that question,
look to all the books, songs, movies, and poems about love.
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