Is Life Pressing Down on You? Give Love a Chance

With the recent passing of David Bowie there have been a lot of posts related to his music and life.  One post that I opened was an Acapella version of the song "Under Pressure" by Queen and Bowie. While listening, the lyrics generated some thoughts:  The song (in my opinion) is about pressure beating down on you.  The response to deal with it was to "turn away"(1) or ignore it or "sit on the fence", indecisive.  The other way to deal with the pressure of life (with people "screaming 'Let me out'") is love.  "keep coming up with love, But it's so slashed and torn".  The word "love" has been misused so it didn't seem appropriate but that is what he kept coming up with...."why, why , why" to this pressure? or why has love been "slashed and torn"?

"Can't we give ourselves one more chance
Why can't we give love that one more chance
Why can't we give love give love give love give love
give love give love give love give love give love"

And why are we not willing to give love one more chance?

"Because love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the night
And love dares you to change our way of
caring about ourselves"

Love is hard to define.  But consider this:

To say you love one person and not another, is not real love.  It is something else.  In order to love all, which is real love, not fantasy, attracted to, connected or like, then you need to be able to see past the physical and external of a person.  (If you struggle with this, remember, forgiveness is the path to love, and love your enemies doesn't mean you have to like them.)

Love dares us and scares us.   Not the external, surface love, but the deep inside love I believe the song is talking about.   This love is the flame of life and it doesn't change or go out.  And that's what scares us; we're so use to living on the surface in the external, we have forgotten what is beneath the surface.   Also there is guilt because deep down we know the flame is there and we ignore it. 

Is your world pressing down on you? Give love a chance.  It is time for us to have a transformation of the way we look at the world.  Living out in the external or surface has not worked for this world, in life, family, politics, religion, etc. (there is still conflict)  Why not try a better way?  Why not give love a chance?

Ben
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(1) All quotes are from the lyrics of the "Under Pressure"