Love = Cold

It's Winter. Yes, I know it's almost Spring but it's still winter. And with the cold weather usually come cold, eerie feelings of loneliness and despair. As if you're the only one alive on this planet and even the imaginary beings on the farthest known planet despise you for living so close to them. Maybe it's not that extreme but it's a proven fact that people become more depressed during the colder seasons of the year and it makes sense. The problem with those feelings is not that they are annoyingly difficult to get over. Rather, the problem is quite the contrary. The problem is that there is a lot of love. As a matter of fact, there's way too much of it. Too much love towards yourself. Ouch, bet you didn't see that one coming! Haha, I tricked you! I will now go eat a bowl of cereal as a reward to myself.

On a more serious note, that little trick of mine parked my thoughts exactly where they need to be for the remainder of this post. It's a thought my brain's been churning for the past couple of weeks. Feelings of loneliness [usually] arrive thanks to our self-propelled trait called, "pride". For the purposes of this post, I prefer the Russian Biblical term, "самолюбие" or "self-love". Though modern society claims that self-love is 'oh-so-necessary' for the survival of the human race, we see the opposite in action. With the rise of humanism and many other "bright" ideas, people have become more independent, self-loving, and cold. In turn, it results in a race where fulfilling personal desires is top priority. These personal desires are in no way approved by God's word.

In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 1 John 3:10-11

The most simple of all commandments is to love those around us. If we do, feelings of loneliness will no longer swarm our minds. It's when we set our pride aside and begin to love others that we will see warmer winters. :)