This Is Your Number-One Priority

May: On LoveMay 29What have we done to ourselves—in a world where we have forgotten (or ignore) the answer to the fundamental question of our existence? What false gods have replaced the very essence of what makes us human? Work, entertainment, money. And, you know as well as I, that that is just the tip of the iceberg of things we place over love. If we continue on this path—this path of neglecting the answer of love—as a group, as a society, as a species, we run the risk of dividing ourselves further. Deeper racial, class, political, and religious divides await us before we ultimately will perish.Love and its siblings, compassion and connection, are essential in all human systems and please understand they are not optional and decorative nice-to-haves. They must be front and foremost in all we take part in—and this, of course, starts with yourself and extends to families all the way to how we work and how we govern ourselves. We either suppress or nurture love, and I for one have seen enough of the suppression of it.Reflection title: This Is Your Number-One PriorityCreative inspiration: Erich Fromm, The Art of LovingReflection Question: Where does love fall in my list of priorities? Have I forgotten it? And what will I do to remember it?