Craving

The only thing all living beings are born to need

I crave it. When I am alone or when I am with people, it is there. Ever so slightly it reminds me. Time goes by, life goes on. But this doesn't. This remains. The craving grows and fades as pieces of life are born and whither. Each day is different. Things happen, we all live. We pass each other and individually contain countless complexities that we cannot understand or begin to empathize with. However, this same craving connects us all underneath. Some can satisfy it. Others, like myself, have a harder time. It’s the most powerful thing we can give while being one thing that has the power to unite us. Yet, why don’t we give more? It is an unspoken craving, yet people openly seek it. Something about the search to satisfy ourselves seems shameful. Though we strive to show others when we finally do. Life itself is created around this normative storyline; the end goal curing the craving forever. So why is it complicated? And painful and joyous and the most intense emotion we can feel as human beings. Love. It’s what makes us human yet drives our day to day actions without the conscious knowledge of the power it holds over us. But to surrender to it is to conquer it as well. To reach the end of this storyline, and to finally satisfy the only craving we are truly born with and cannot live without. Love is unquestionably life’s nourishment. It remains.

Reviews

[Rye]

Such a deep write here but nicely presented