The Joy of Power

Love is beautiful thing.

There is little in human experience that compares to the heart-filling ecstacy of romantic love.

We all remember quite clearly the moment we fell. The instant we knew that we were in it. The second we were overcome with the pure joy. The absolute fulfillment of self to the point that we lost ourself.

That is why it works so well as a power mechanism.

Falling in love causes us to forget everything we had once planned for our lives and begin to redesign the future. The path that we have charted for ourselves now needs to be sketched in a new way to include a second set of footprints. Not only does it change in size and shape, but we are now willing to consider new directions.

And even when we are certain that this love is not something that is permanent and we should not change our path for this love, we find that we still fall off the path we had set for ourselves.

Love affects our choices.

No one has to use love for the power of love to be real.

We will chat about how there are some who will use love as a mechanism to affect choices and attempt to obtain what they seek. That is real and needs to be understood.

But just as real and maybe more important is understanding the innocent power of love.

There is nothing we want more. We have all heard others say that love is secondary to other dreams and desires. Career, art, music, wealth, or success in some matter of life are driving forces and I have had my share of friends who claim that these are more important to them than love.

That is delusion.

I have had dreams and goals that I have put ahead of love.

But in hindsight I see that the love I subordinated was something that had hurt me because of its use for power. The love was no longer real and I did not trust it. Power destroys trust. And so the purity of the love was lost and so it was no longer the same. So I did not place love behind other goals. I placed something that was love behind those goals.

When love comes before you again. When new love arrives. When love is revived. When love is
discovered, all else falls behind it again.

We all want and need to be loved. It is so important that we will drop everything else to have it. We will give up other dreams to enjoy it - even for a moment. When it is before us nothing else matters. We live moment to to moment in an unspoken search for it. Without ever admitting it we spend our lives seeking that joy and acceptance.

We need it so much we willingly give up choice to have it, for however long it will last.

No one has to use it on us for it to be power. It is power because there is nothing that we want more. There is nothing we need more. There is nothing with more power inside it waiting to be used. It is our ultimate desire and need.

It requires no intention to be power over us.

Our passionate need creates passionate power.

As we approach Valentine's Day and our anticipated admission to another of the love we have for them and the power they have over us, let's not forget that power can be fun too.