This blog is about all things Libertarian/Conservative. My opinions on who is doing good and doing bad. Rantings of a fed up Conservatarian from Irvine, Kentucky
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Is Unconditional Love Real?
Have you ever heard someone tell
you that they love their husband or their wife or their child or even you
unconditionally? Have you been tempted
to say it yourself? I know I have said
it and at the time actually felt like I meant it. Everything's conditional. We will get back to that in just a
moment. First I would like to ask you
some more questions. Have you ever heard
someone tell you that you need to be more tolerant of other people's culture,
religion, or even someone's sexual orientation?
Have you ever been told that everyone should pull together to make sure
their fellow man is taken care of?
Lastly I want to ask you do you feel guilty at all for personal
successes and achievements and the rewards reaped as a result? Everything's conditional.
I
want to stop right here and explain a little bit about myself. I was born in 1980 in
Fort Knox, KY. I was born destined to
live as an Army brat. Now in case you
are unfamiliar with the term, it simply means a child whose parent(s) are in
the army and end up moving everywhere their parents do. My stays included Delaware, Mississippi,
Arizona, Virginia and finally winding up back in Kentucky. Never staying more than 5 years in any one
area did not exactly allow me to develop meaningful relationships with any of
my peers. When I began my freshman year
in high school, I spoke with an almost non existent accent to my voice. People found it hard to understand anything
that I said and equally found it hard for me to understand the thick accent in
which my peers projected. It was never
easy on me making friends regardless of where we were living. I never understood why it was always harder
on me than others or even my two brothers to successfully interact with others
without a constant fear in my head that I was going to be rejected. This problem continued throughout not only my
life in school but out in the real world as well. I had always assumed that there is just
simply some defect within myself that was always the cause of my social
awkwardness.
I had always felt that the same
defect had caused me to never want to compete against someone else for fear of
seeing them lose and how bad I would end up feeling. I had also felt that the same defect was the
cause of the failures of all my relationships with women.
For
eight years I had served as a volunteer firefighter and that same defect always
kept me from being someone that everyone could depend on, the “go to guy”. It didn't matter how many hours of training I
put in or if I scored better or knew the material better than everyone else, it
just was not enough. I eventually became
an emergency medical technician at the basic level in the state of Kentucky. There where plenty of reasons why one would
not particularly care to be an EMT. It
has the possibility of long unusual hours and almost always low rate of
pay. I became an EMT because I felt that
my whole entire life I have been under the thumb of everyone else. I was either always doing something because
someone told me to or because they would rather see me do it than
themselves. I was always in someone's
shadow no matter if they deserved the spotlight or not. However my work as an EMT revealed to me two
things about me and life in general. The
first is that everyone has an agenda.
The second is that everything's conditional.
I
want to return to the subject of unconditional love or what I now know as love
that does not exist. Every relationship
that begins begins with an interest.
Every one has an agenda that they work off of when determining how far
if at all they allow the relationship to go.
There are no exceptions to this as no one on this earth is capable of
going from nothing to love without conditions being met. Even parents are guilty of having to have
conditions met before they can love their own offspring. I know that the very thought of what I just
said would immediately set off any well meaning parent. If an honest person were to examine
themselves they would realize that events had to take place before love could
occur. I mean I have never heard a
mother or a father say they love a child that has not been conceived. Event one has to be that the woman becomes
successfully pregnant. If even one event
has to be successfully met in order for love to be possible then that love was
conditional. Does conditional love mean
any less than unconditional love? I
would not feel that way. What I would
hope to expose to readers of this book is to the greater appreciation of the
conditions met in order for love to be successful. I would even be bold enough to say that an
admission of conditional love over unconditional love would have much more
meaning due to the honesty that must take place. The word honest is something that is merely
thrown around these days. Much like a
man's handshake or a man's word, it does not mean what it used to. It takes honesty and integrity to build a
quality relationship resulting in love.
It takes even more to make that relationship last. I have realized throughout the failures of my
relationships with women is that no matter how much respect and courtesy I
would extend to them, it was worthless unless I was giving them the real Virgil
Edwards. I have to admit that while the
respect and courtesy I would show is very much a part of me, what I didn't show
them was the playful side of me that I had always felt was immature and would
simply go away with age. I didn't show
them the side of me that quite frankly does not need to be in detail here. Each relationship lasted only as long as
conditions were being met.
As soon as I was unable to satisfy
the other person's agenda or they found someone that could I was history. However even with this revelation I knew that
I did not quite have the whole picture.
I began to understand that if everyone has to have conditions and a
personal agenda, then perhaps in order to better interact with everyone around
me, I too must have conditions and a personal agenda. My whole life I always saw people and never
had any real expectations of how they should act around me or how I should act
around them. I remember when I was young
and living in Virginia, I would have this mentality about people that would
cause me to think that perhaps I was the only one that was real and everyone
else was just there. Have you ever
looked at a person in another vehicle on the road and knew especially if they
were going in the opposite direction as you that you knew you would never see them
again and therefore never had any expectations?
That is how I looked at each person I would come across. I looked at people as if they were
robots. You never looked at your vacuum
cleaner and expected it to plug itself up and clean on its own. That is how I looked at people. I had no expectations of how they should
treat me or how I should treat them. I
never set any conditions on which people interacted with me. I never looked at people then and said if this
person does not fit what I expect out of them then I would not have anything to
do with them. I often found myself alone
as a child because I did not expect others to want anything to do with me. I did not expect others to feel the need to
have me around. I never was able to make
the connection that if I did not interact or interject myself around others I
had no real expectation of being surrounded by others. We all have conditions that must be met in
order for us to successfully interact with others. We all have personal agendas that we expect
others to adhere to or agree with in order for us to successfully interact with
others................................TO BE CONTINUED
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
How NOT To Protest Abortion on EKU's Campus 9/9 Part 2
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Why Raising The Minimum Wage is Bad Economic Policy
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Saturday, September 6, 2014
My Latest Appearance on the Wayne Dupree Show on We Are America Radio 9/5
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