The Love Illusion

Disclaimer: Before you attempt to read this post, this is a warning. This shocking revelation might affect greatly or even destroy what your life ever stood for depending on whether you interpret it positively or negatively. Read at your own risk or don't if you feel that you still want to keep intact the meaning of your lives.

Love, the only true, pure emotion(or so we think) that gives meaning to most, if not all of our lives. Most of us think we live just for our loved ones. Most of us think of love as extremely selfless. You guys must be wondering why i used the word 'think', that's because I'm here to say that the love that you know of is the most selfish thing ever, one that drives the real meaning behind our lives: Our will to power!

Let me ask you this: Do you really love someone, or do you really love only the feeling he/she brings you? The love that we know of is one that is most probably classified under the second feeling. Love is where two mutually selfish people come together because they make each other feel better. The same can be said for your love of things, you only like them because of the feeling they bring to you when you use them. Underlying all love is our strive to become master over all space(ownership) and to extend our force; our will to power. Our love or social relationships is when people encounter similar efforts on the part of other bodies and ends by coming to an arrangement (union) with those of them that are sufficiently related to it: thus they then conspire together for power. When we say we love someone, we will usually think that we know whats best for him/her. Why? Because we want to impose ourselves onto them; our will to power likes it when someone listens to us, because its a sign that we are in control, that we are powerful. We only love things that does or say things that we like because it is an ego boost; and hate things that says or does things that make us feel bad, constantly avoiding them because they hurt our ego. Ask yourself this: Are you more likely to like something or someone that listens to you, or shares your common interests? The answer is most probably yes, that is how most of us choose our friends and relationships. At the bottom of every decision we make, lies our self-interests. Whatever we say or do, we expect a benefit to ourselves for return, be it immediate or not. Taking the above as example: We only make friends that agree with us, we say things that is acceptable inside our clique because we expect them to say something that is pleasing in return, to reaffirm our very existence for power. The same can be said when we do charity for the poor: We always expect a thank you in return, or expect them to smile and nod and treat us with respect. When they don't, we label them as rude, ungrateful. In this situation, am I right to say that we only do charity for the reassurance that we are 'good'? Our inborn self-defense mechanism too, serves only to protect our powerful ego. Do you always find yourself putting blame on something else? That is the work of our self-defense mechanism. To deny our own inferiority, we tend to blame external factors for our frustrations. It is always something else, never is it the fault of our infalliable, ever powerful ego!

Religion, too is will to power. People believe in religion because it strengthens them, it makes them feel stronger and smarter then others who do not believe in their religion because they have the backing of their god and they think they know the 'truth'. They too feel at an advantage over others because they believe that they will have a better afterlife.

It is in human nature to lust for power, which explains why humans are inherently selfish, shrewd, and this forms the major framework for all society where people pursue their self-interests in as many ways as possible. It is why there is a need for morality in society. Morality is a mutual agreement between people to prolong and protect their existence just so they can enforce their power on others for as much and as long as possible, until their very last breath.

The world and the will to live is the will to power -- and nothing besides!

True love, however do exist. If you truely love something, you will not expect anything in return for your love. This is the true selfless, pure love. If you truely love someone, you will not try to intervene in their lives. True love is letting nature take its course. If you truely love someone, set him/her/it free.