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My Generation NEEDS To Bring Love Back

Being heartless isn't cool, its cruel.

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My Generation NEEDS To Bring Love Back
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In a world of constant hate, we must come together and bring love. I look up to the elder generation and see the love they share for their family, their friends, but especially for their significant other, and it breaks my heart that we don't feel the same.

While bullying has been around as long as man has, there seems to be an increased pressure behind it in these recent years. While affairs and divorce aren't new to the public, they aren't as taboo as they used to be. It's almost shocking to see a couple survive a marriage these days.

While the world has grown cold and angry, we've seemed to have grown colder and angrier with it. In the days of soft hearts and open-mindedness, we've forgotten how to truly love one another.

If someone offends you, you block them. If you don't agree with someones views, you remove them from your Facebook friend list. If someone hurts you, you plot revenge. Instead of trying to see eye-to-eye, we turn our cheek the other way. We've gotten so good at burning bridges that we don't have any wood left to construct new ones.

In the age of rising technology and social media, we've forgotten to teach our younger generations some of the most important life lessons. We've forgotten to teach them forgiveness. We've forgotten to teach them responsibility. But most importantly, we've forgotten to teach them how to love.

Love is such an important part of life and has so many different categories and functions. Romantic love is very different from friendly companionship. Knowing how to love is just as important as knowing how to be loved.

And as the world fills with hatred, the only thing to fix it is an outpouring of love.

Why brag on how many hearts you've broken? What good does that do? Why is being a "playa" so appealing, but loving someone whole-heartedly is repugnant? Have you ever even witnessed love?

Because I have. I have witnessed love; true, hard, suffocating love. And I am here to tell you that it is the bee's knees. It is the greatest feeling on Earth. It can move mountains, calm the seas, and everything in between. Being in love is one of the best things you can experience, right next to chocolate.

So why aren't we fighting back with the most powerful emotion on Earth? Why are we letting the paradoxical emotion drive us?

Instead of following our burning rancor, put out the fire with tenderness and yearning. Treat each other with respect, even if it isn't shown or deserved. Bring peace to one another. Live with love weighing heavy in our hearts.

Remember that people are human and they are hurting. The best cure to a broken heart is being surrounded with warmth and love. So why aren't we surrounding our broken, wounded world with warmth and love?

As they always say, "Be the change you want to see in the world." Bring love back to our damaged generation.

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