// LOVE is a BUSINESS (and a good one at that).//

I would like to start off that I’m not a bitter individual as I type this article.  As a matter of fact I love the concept.  Makes a person feel warm and fuzzy inside.  The thought of meeting the “one” and living “happily ever after” is the quintessential goal of every person on the planet.  I mean, who is looking for “no one” and who want to live “misserably ever after?”  What I’m trying to say is that the concept of love is just that, a concept.  The universal belief of what love is doesn’t exist and has now become the most lucrative business in the world from saps like you and I.

Let me explain.  In the tens of thousands of years that mankind has existed, the notion of love that we know of has only existed for at least a thousand years.  Human beings are animals and by nature are programed to find a mate and procreate.  The animal kingdom doesn’t know what love is.  They eat, breathe, hunt, and fornicate.  It’s the circle of life Lion King style.  Animals know fear, anger, even happiness, but not love.  The majority of us don’t know what love is too.  I’ve heard the word said in a myriad of emotions.  If love is an emotion, they why do we use other emotions?  I’ve never used both happiness and anger at the same time.  If I do, commit me to a mental hospital on site!  

So what happened? How did we get to animalistic behavior to the love we know of today?  In a sense, it was a part of being human that created this emotion.  Was it to separate us from the animals?  Who would want to be compared to someone that is eating raw meat and defecating anywhere they please?  More so, was the human mind’s ability to think of things other than that of a primal beast.  We have the ability to create things other than more people.  So what form of creation has love’s warfull hard chocking grip?  The answer my friends is art.

From my knowledge, Shakespeare was the first to plant the seed of what we think love is today.  The play “Romeo and Juliet,” was the hand on the trigger that got people thinking that love is something to die for.  The playbook is literature and the play itself is entertainment.  Both fall in the realm of art and now plays like “Romeo and Juliet” have mutated into movies like “Twilight.”  

We want to believe that someone out there will die for us.  We want our former significant others to feel miserable when we’re not around them.  The music industry is filled with songs that have the same topic of falling in love and falling out of love.  Hollywood won’t have a movie where the couple doesn’t end up together before the credits roll.  Fabio would be out of a career if it wasn’t for the romance novel industry.  All of these mediums are being consumed by a public (mostly women) so blindsided that they create countless mistakes in their lives.  

Chances are, many of you are not going to find the “one” who you will spend the rest of your life with.  Some of you will have many “ones” to laugh and cry with.  What’s wrong with that?  Most of you are not gonna have a man or woman run a marathon type run across town to hold their significant other so tight because they don’t want them to leave their site.  Again, what’s wrong with that.  It’s these impossible standards that drive people bat-shit-crazy to accomplish for their significant other.  Has anyone took a step back and asked themselves that maybe the author, singer, playwright, etc. is only telling you what you want to hear?  All of Hollywood is geared to give hopeless romantics todays notion of love and we are stupid enough to pay them for more.  Meanwhile, divorce runs rampant throughout the streets as it’s first stage of the disease, marriage, continues it’s pandemic in this world.

Valentine’s Day is the mother of love’s business.  Things like chocolates, roses, restaurants, etc. fuel the money coming into love’s account.  If love didn’t exist, the economy would take a dramatic dive.  We’ve bloated this business to the point where nothing can stop it’s evil clutches.  There are organizations dedicated to making sure children don’t get influenced by the tobacco industry.  Why isn’t there an organization who will stop at nothing to make sure children don’t see a Disney film where the prince puts his life in danger to save the damsel.  I like to call these methods “love lights.”

So what’s the answer.  Have I been rambling on and on only to not offer a solution?  I myself can’t do a thing because the millions upon millions of people will continue to fuel this business.  Even when I discuss the topic, I’m dismissed as bitter or I don’t know what love is.  Be that as it may, you cannot argue the divorce rate in this country.  Comedic acts that talk about how they plot the murder of their significant other.  The type of people that are in and out of a relationship and always looking for marriage.  I’m sure I don’t fully grasp the “power” of love and you know what, I’m perfectly fine with that.  At least I won’t be a two time divorcee looking for the hat trick.  I’ll be fine single and making people laugh.