Capitalist Disillusionment with a Valentine Kiss
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14 February 2010
Capitalist Disillusionment with a Valentine Kiss
In the midst of this worldwide economic turmoil, insurance companies and stores alike are extolling a return to family unity and simplicity of the family as a unified haven. Family game night is strongly encouraged, as well as other more inexpensive forms of family entertainment. As with most difficult times, the prevailing emphasis is thus switched over from materialist consumption to the wealth of family, friends, and that which is most freely abundant: love.
Or does it?
In a world currently seeing an increase of divorces, hardships, financial turmoil, broken dreams, general corruption, and unctuous swindlers, love hardly seems to exist. One would be very hard pressed to find this quixotic intangible except in the lost, broken, marginalized shadows within a mirky mist of lowered morale, forgotten spirit, and forsaken hope. At best, the overriding excuse for paucity of love is that it is a luxury too expensive in these challenging economic times.
So what is the point to this challenging turmoil?
The true test of character is not seen in the ones who merely survive and endure to enjoy another day. Instead, it is in the ones who can honestly say to themselves that they are unaffected. Now, by unaffected, I do not mean the mega wealthy who truly are unaffected by this economic downturn. Rather, it is the 'Regular Joe' who can truly account for his wealth of friends, family, and loved ones and say to himself he is unaffected. He knows he has not suffered a lack of wealth because the material is not what he considers his wealth. He knows and what he values most is his spirit, his life purpose, and his creative invention to live love.
Love - true love - like all valued intangibles is mutually exclusive of the material. Enrobed in a seeming dearth of material finances that seem to be ravenously devoured by big corporations and swindlers to an exponentially horrifying degree, it is truly amazing to see and to acknowledge the endless wealthy abundance of happiness in truth of love. So go ahead and look around at your friends, family, and loved ones and tally up the value of your wealth.
Instead of focusing on what you lack, dedicate your efforts towards your own creative potentiality. Foster it and let it flourish before you. Happy Valentine's Day in the true sense, spirit, and hope of its intention.
This is my Valentine to you: a sweet, sumptuous, sensual dessert, filled with a rich, velvety, nougat, truffle love center to fuel your potentiality.
