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What is it about the human race that drives us to seek something beyond our mundane, day-to-day lives? We worship gods that created the Universe and direct the course of history, watch movies and read books where everything is somehow more than in real life, chase after the promise of a deep, selfless, ever-lasting love. Pick up any work of science-fiction and compare its methods of transportation to those in real life -- They either glow and sparkle, or have a tendency to get attacked in mid-flight. Ever notice how in works of fiction, the Internet is so real it can kill you?
Do we crave something beyond our dreary mundanity because we grow up seeing such incredible, impossible things in our entertainment, or our these things shown because we crave at least seeing them, if we can't experience them? Most likely it's a little of both. The ever-expanding fantasies of television and movies only fuel us to desire even more intensity -- The more we want, the more they give, and the more they give, the more we want. How much of our lives are centered around this search for something more? I think it's this search that caused us to create religions, philosophy, to chase after love, and even this search which fuels the daredevils among us to try ever more dangerous feats.
Call me a romantic, but I think love is the crossroads for all these things. Falling in love lets you touch the face of God. It lets you feel that you're not merely complete, but that you're something more than yourself. It is, arguably, the most intense thing you'll ever have the luck, be it good or bad, to feel in life. I'd like to tie love in as just another myth caused by the more paradigm, but the fact is, I've felt it, and it's as real as the keyboard I'm typing this with. But then, to most of those reading this, me and my keyboard are merely letters on a screen...