(He basically tells the story of falling in love for the
first time (13 -crush) on a girl he saw in the distance, and in the absence of
knowing anything about her, fantasized a perfect being, a divine counterpart.
Not a human. Not an actual partner to love. But a stand in for the divine, the
perfection we all crave and are driven by. He makes the argument that this kind
of longing should be encouraged and shifted toward an understanding of the
divine, by wise elders who intervene (not to discourage) but keep them
separate, help them imagine and grow in their longing for a deeper divine, and
express it in creativity and spirituality and renewal of the community and the
relationship to the divine (and also not let them actually become partners
unless they are initiated past this stage of their development).
He acknowledges that in modern culture we rob kids of both
of these things, distract them with pop culture and consumerism, so that
instead of glowing and expressing their love/grief longing for the divine, they
are sucked into shallowness. And that a different form of squashing might also
just be to dismiss the puppylove, the romantic in haste, appeal to logic or
certainty… or a third way to destroy the spirit would be to let the lovers burn
out, and be appalled when they realize neither is divine, and neither is really
fully human yet either… (adolescents).
But that the longing for the divine should be nourished and
encouraged… oh. Simplicity was never caught, sometimes I hope she’ll never be.
I worry I’ve forgotten how to seek the spark of the divine
in my actual life, that instead I cultivate it when I am working… or staring at
strangers but not seeking in new people or relationships. Maybe that’s what I
keep ‘waiting for’ some spark of the divine… maybe that’s the wrong way to seek
love. Maybe love is a business transaction.
Who is Aeyla? (which
is apparently pronounced like eye-la) whereas I’d find it more divine to say
A-la.
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