Mortality and Emotions...

"Our human desire can go wrong in two ways: when we stop desiring anything outside ourselves and fall for the pathetic illusion that we are sufficient in ourselves, or when we desire such things as fame, riches, beauty, wisdom, and human love that are as finite as we are and thus unworthy of our absolute devotion." -- Os Guinness

Pouring our whole beings into finding something that we 'think' will make us happy never works out. We strive for ideals that we don't fully comprehend. We seek the things we think are what we need, but really are not critical to our lives. That doesn't mean that we can't find happiness for our time spent on this dirty, decaying planet. Our Creator gave us such things as love and wisdom and hope so that we could find them waiting for us at the most opportune (or inopportune) moments in our lives when we needed them most. But those things do die. Love dies, and certainly hope does too. They fit into the moment when we most require them to be there. We lean on emotions like love and hope to break up the monotony of this life. But they end, just like us. They crash and shatter to the floor like a mirror you accidentally knock off the wall and reflect back to you all of the thoughts you had stored up in those feelings. Even our emotions are mortal, just like our soft, fleshy selves. Hope is a bright and bubbly girl with blonde hair and freckles, quick to laugh and easy to please. Love is dark and sultry and easy disguised: to some, he may appear as a man with strong arms and an easy smile; to others, a woman with long sooty hair, wrapping herself in a black scarf. People can personify emotions any way they want to. Regardless of how the emotion is viewed, it is still finite, mortal, transient, frail, earthly.