It that time of year again. The time when little bunnies hop around and baby chicks pop out pastel-colored eggs. The little baby Jesus is all grown up. He died, and he's coming back from the dead. That happens this weekend. People worldwide will cry tears of joy of their savior. And then there are people like me who really hate this time of year. It's not the religious that bothers me, but more the commercialization of it. Luckily, Easter isn't as big of a nightmare as Christmas. Yet.
But what really gets me is the whole aura of love that seems to go along with this season. I was driving in to work today and something hit me. It was this big, grandiose thought. I was listening to my new Mika CD and a few of the songs seem to have a common theme: love is so often lost, wasted, or thrown away. Take for example the following lyrics from some of his songs:
1~ About a break-up: " 'Cause I don't care if I ever talk to you again. This is not about emotion, I don't need a reason not to care what you say, Or what happened in the end. This is my interpretation, And it don't, don't make sense."
2~ About abandonment and lonliness: " I sit and think about the day that you're gonna die, 'Cause your wrinkled eyes betrayed the joy with which you smiled.... Is there anybody home? Who will believe me, won't deceive me, who'll try to teach me? Is there anybody home? Who wants to have me, just to love me?" (Note this last line: who wants to have me just to love me? Perfect.)
3~ About break-up: " This is the way you left me, I'm not pretending. No hope, no love, no glory, No Happy Ending. This is the way that we love, Like it's forever. Then live the rest of our life, But not together."
4~ About the requirement of perfection: " Gotta be everything more. Why don't you like me? Why don't you like me?"
5~ The truth about love: "Love's gonna get you down."
All of these are perfect examples that love is lost all too easily these days. The divorce rate continues to skyrocket. We have shows like Jerry Springer, Divorce Court, and others where couples and ex-couples go to duke it out (whether legally or not). The biggest complaint I hear about people, gay boys, in particular, is that there is way too much drama surrounding them. Nasty break-ups often trigger he-said-she-said bullshit, which leads to nastier comments, et cetera, et cetera. The lesson to be learned: let us all learn to find love, and to be happy in love, and if it doesn't work out, just move on. We don't need to over-dramatize our lives with an ex's comments and doings, but what we must all do is to take a relationship as a learning experience: you found things that you don't particularly like, maybe you saw some things in yourself that you didn't about,
and hopefully you learned, you grew, and you stood taller because of it.
Please, for the sake of humanity, let's learn to love one another. We don't need to fight. We don't need drama. We don't need all the bullshit that goes around. Obviously love is a problem. If you can't be with the person you're with any longer, make it a nice, quiet break-up, and leave all the personal details between the two of you instead of spreading nasty rumors around town. Is that too much to ask?
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