People...

Love means in general terms the consciousness of my unity with another, so 

that I am not in selfish isolation but win my self-consciousness only as the 

renunciation of my independence and through knowing myself as the unity 

of myself with another and of the other with me.

(the nation and its fragments)

.... moreso than anything else, do not like feeling displaced. We create and perpetuate all of these crazy theories about human beings not liking to feel imprisoned (by a person, institution, place, emotion) or not enjoying abuse or other forms of "violence," but what they really despise more than anything else is not feeling like they have a place in the world, that they don't matter, that they are nobody or dead to the world or lonely. I'm thinking of the old man in the Shawshank redemption who, after being in prison for virtually his entire life, committed suicide once he was released. I am thinking of myself and how I can go from one lifestyle to the next (in love with school/learning, in love with a person, in love with God, in love with dance/movement, in love with reading, a book, family, blah blah blah...).... and be in love with all of them.... they all offer essentially the same thing... a chance for me/us/human beings to feel placed instead of displaced... to feel connected, to feel like we belong....

I didn't mean to throw God in there with everything else...

and then we die..

but in the meantime there are cool things we can do...
 like try and figure out what our "destiny" is.. and then realize that it is only our "destiny" because we had been bred, since childhood, for such...

or get married and share in the absurdities and perplexities of life with something/one that is constant...

or ....