Social creatures

Human beings evolved into social creatures. Their social nature created families, tribes and other forms of community to work, feed themselves, build shelter, provide security and propagate. They were bound together by blood, duty, loyalty, fear…and love, as humans came to invent it.

But love is elusive. Where it comes from, what it can do, how it is defined by and embedded in culture and how it is practiced are not constant. Often it is defined in relationship to its opposition, hate. Love is demanding and hard while hate is an easy seducer.

Hate builds walls to create the illusion of safety, when in fact it creates only fear. Love deepens as it pushes outward, driven by its own courage and necessity.