Dan Pearce

The world population is nearing seven billion. John Travolta and Farrah Fawcett didn__ procreate and produce all seven thousand million of us. Audrey Hepburn and Burt Lancaster didn__ personally populate the world. Almost every child that was ever born is the byproduct of two everyday people who found each other attractive enough to go jump in the sack together. Almost every child that was ever born came about because two everyday people thought the other was attractive enough to warrant a second glance. If you want proof that attraction belongs to the individual, go sit on a bench at the mall and look at all the different couples walking by.You will believe that there literally is someone for everyone.

If there is one thing I have come to believe over the years, it__ the notion that there really is somebody for everybody. Every single person is going to look at beauty from a different angle. Every single person is going to be attracted to certain features and characteristics that are completely different than the next person. And_ there isn__ a person on earth that everybody on earth finds attractive.

The greatest spiritual leaders in history have all preached love for others as the basis for all happiness, and never did they accompany such mandates with a list of unlovable actions or deeds. They never said, love everybody except for the gays. Love everybody except for the homeless. Love everybody except for the drug users. Love everybody except for the gang members, or those covered in ink, or the spouse abusers. They didn__ tell us it was okay to love everybody with the exception of the __railer trash,_ those living in poverty, or the illegal immigrants. They didn__ tell us it was okay to love everybody except for our ex-lovers, our lovers_ ex lovers, or our ex-lovers_ lovers. The mandate was pretty damn clear, wasn__ it?Love others.Period.

We all have to escape from this thing called life sometimes. Maybe we use substances to do it. Maybe we use religion. Maybe we use exercise. Maybe we use anger. But we all have to do it. *How* we do it is what defines us.