Love Whoever

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”

– Kurt Vonnegut (from "The Sirens of Titan")

When we look at shows like "The Bachelor" , an expensive television show where people come from thousands of miles hoping to find a love-match and the possibility of finding a real, everlasting love, I think about those who were not chosen by the bachelor. The words of Vonnegut  describe a different purpose. Perhaps we are here, not to meet someone far away, but to find our great love among those who are around us.
     Our busy lives take us to many places: colleges away from home, military service, choosing jobs in distant locations,  or moving away from our original home. Where can we find our love? Technology has changed the way we look for love. If you find the one you love on screen or in person, hold them, tell them what is in your heart, before the wind takes them even farther away.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

 The poet A.E. Housman makes the stuff of life memorable, in his book "The Shropshire Lad"

XXXII

From far, from eve and morning
  And yon twelve-winded sky,
The stuff of life to knit me
  Blew hither: here am I.
 
Now -- for a breath I tarry
  Nor yet disperse apart --
Take my hand quick and tell me,
  What have you in your heart.
 
Speak now, and I will answer;
  How shall I help you, say;
Ere to the wind's twelve quarters
  I take my endless way.

           ~A.E. Housman