Love Taunts My Metaphysical Conservatism
October 6, 2007 · Category: Intellectual, Personal
Faustin wrote this in the comments to a friends-only post, but it’s just too good not to haul up into the sunlight:
But the feeling of being in love includes the feeling of inescapable compulsion, that it had to be, that it was cosmically ordained, that in all the world she uniquely fits me, that there was a master plan orchestrating such a harmonious and seemingly improbable outcome. It taunts my metaphysical conservatism.
Amen, brother.
I wonder if anyone really and truly in love — the kind of life-love relationship that bends and warps you toward the light, from the core of your being — couldn’t relate to this sentiment on some level.
Whether it’s true or not.
2 Responses to “Love Taunts My Metaphysical Conservatism”
Yeah that’s good.
Thanks, brother.
Very troubled internet connectivity here. Tash and I are traveling to Sochi over the next 9-12 days.
I find Rory Stewart inspiring, and after reading several of his articles and most of his book _The Places In Between_, I’m admiring his Turquoise Mountain project very much. You should check it out. Due diligence should reveal he was a deputy governor in southern Iraq from Aug 2003-May 2004. He walked across Iran, Nepal, and all the way across Afghanistan, taking the tortuous mountain route, in the winter of 2002 (he spent a rather longer time walking acorss Iran). He was once a tutor to Prince William. He’s the same age as you and me.