6/14/2011
Forbidden Love!
By:Teymur Roshdi
Smashwords Edition
Copyright2011-Teymur Roshdi
There has been love between humans which is called 'Great Love'. Love between young people is the strongest and because of its strength, it becomes often destructive.
It is said that Aphrodite, goddess of Beauty inspired love, and the greek mythology is full of this sort of love which incited almost all people,( mortals, immortals and heroes) to commit criminal acts or suicide. I won't mention the multiple and various cases, that is not the subject of this article.
The wise men of the ancient Greece suggested or proposed the moderation, the golden rule for human attitude, but can we control all the emotions and the passions which are stronger than us? We are too far from being superheroes and we all know the weaknesses of the human nature.
Once face to face with Beauty, how the young people would be able to resist and control their ardor? And what is this Beauty which make us crazy? Isn't it just a stratagem or a trick of the Nature to 'deceive' us for the sake of the procreation? The survival of our species?
I will not discuss the nature of the Beauty or its characteristics. In the greek mythology, anyone hit by Cupid's arrow fell in love with whoever they met, could be a centaur, a cyclop, a minotaur, a satyr or just a monster. If I dig into the nature of Beauty and Love, it may involve us into metaphysical discussions which are infinite and endless.
The only thing I can see and can say is this fact that in Love like in all the other things in the world, we have scales and boundaries. The invisible boundaries keep everything in its place and each time these limits are transgressed, Nemesis, goddess of vengeance, punishes the 'hybris' and the authors of the transgressions. And what are these scales and boundaries?
We are designed in a manner to follow a path in our earthly journey: to develop, to procreate and to die, and this is the most common path for the common of all mortals. But given we humans, are not 100% animals and we don't follow exclusively our instincts, and given we are 99% animals and 1% something else, in many cases this 1% something else takes advantage over the 99% of our animal part and sometimes makes us to sacrifice the animal part in the benefit of this unknown 'something else' and maybe this very 'something else' is what which differentiates us from all the other animals.
This 1% something else could be compared with the thyroidal gland, in some people it is hyperactive, in some other lazy and inactive and in the rest just moderately active. When this 1% something else works properly and moderately, it can produce great philosophers, thinkers, discoverers, scientists and geniuses.
Great Love is the result of the hyperactivity of this 1% unknown something else in the human nature. People motivated by that are pushed on the 'road' in search of a Truth, and while the road is long and tiresome and while we are hurt and injured, the unknown still attracts us , it is stronger than our power and intelligence Suddenly amidst of the way we encounter an amazing flower, a Rose which is so beautiful and so perfectly designed that we take it as an absolute Truth , we stop and we fall in love with it , forgetting that the Rose was just a sign on the road to lead us toward a more advanced scale. The rose distracts us for a while and when we touch it, it fades away and the petals fell down on the ground and we begin mourning that loss for the rest of our life, and we could die of desperation or commit suicide because the impact of the Beauty of the Rose was so great and because we took it as the Absolute Truth and because we were so complete and so intensely happy that living without it becomes impossible. We just falsely fell in love with a temporary beauty, while the real Beauty is Eternal.
The Rose was just an allegory for our eagerness to fall in love with something so perfect which appears on our path toward Eternity. Romeo and Juliet experienced this, the Great Love. And this Love was stronger than their capacity, and they have been pushed to commit suicide. They falsely took each other as the 'absolute truth' or the 'absolute beauty'. Bud and Deanie in Splendor in the grass did the same, they experienced the Great Love and they committed suicide but in a different way. Deanie fell into madness and Bud annihilated himself in the ordinary life. Meggy and father Ralph in Thorn Birds did the same, they both committed 'suicide', Meggy by marrying another man and Ralph by taking refuge in the ecclesiastical institution. Bella and Edward in Twilight saga experienced this Great Love too, they both got through suicide and the only thing which could rescue them and their love was to becoming something non-human , a sort of 'immortal' beings.
Today when we talk about Great Love, people think about 'great sex'. The obstacles of the past are collapsed and the majority of the people have opted for the animal way of life and I don't blame them, neither I criticize it because that is the guarantee of the survival of our species. Being an animal is not bad at all and following our animal instincts can be harmless too, simply that 1% something else is the only potential, an unknown potential within our 'humankind' design which could lead us toward something unforeseen or maybe something fabulous.
6/14/2011