Hey, we are all swimming in this soup. Remember, you're brave!

Sweet, reassuring words that kept me going through the night. That plus a few drinks too many accompanied by far too many incoherent conversations and dialogues.

Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment... 'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.


I couldn't have said it better myself. Love, I've concluded, is the process in which people become mutually committed to building a meaningful and critical relationship - to be invested and accountable to the welfare and growth of your partner and of your fellow human beings. This means maintaining commitment even in the presence of hardships and tribulations rather than severing ties. This means allowing room for individual differences but uniting over commonalities to foster the growth of something mutual - the two don't have to be exclusive and shouldn't be.

Until this is achieved and understood, there can be no room for revolution. In order to combat our socialization and institutions of oppression, we must first master how to love one another and how to love ourselves.

Love must become the language of growth for revolutionaries with militancy and self-defense as the language of resistance. The two cannot be mutually exclusive - it is through love of yourself, of others, and of community that must compel one to use any means necessary prevent harm or further oppression of that which you love, and you must use love to simultaneously create a better world and to prevent yourself from being stuck in a cycle of constant resistance and destruction as opposed to construction.

How do we combine the two to create a comprehensive language of revolution?