There is a kind of affection but without serendipity and there is a kind of fulfillment by way of forsaking.
A person who never want to lost you may not be the one who really love you or loyal to you. Sometimes it is only a confused mind with strong possessive impulse. They may do things hurting others without benefit themselves and at the same time take it for granted. If a person always think that "once I have it, I am not going to let go ever and forever", then this person is only a paranoiac of possession. Trying to get the eternal assurance of love will only result in further astray.
To love something means to learn how to appreciate it, to cherish it and to make it precious. To care someone means to let that someone delighted. Because this person's emotions will bring turbulence to your emotions too. That's why there is a saying "I feel glad because you are happy". Loving a person is to let her/him to live in happiness. This will make the affection more sincere. If you are not able to do that, then you may have to let go. Therefore sometimes, we need to learn how to forsake. Because giving up is also a kind of beauty.
Even in this information flooding ages, apotheosis is still going on with stupidity neglecting facts. Take for an example of Thomas Edison. Was he a genius inventor or just a greedy capitalist?
You may know that Edison’s dogged determination drove him to try a thousand different filaments before he invented the light bulb. We often think of this as emblematic of American hard work and dedication. But in truth, Edison was a slob who could not stand to organize his work or perform proper research. So instead of figuring out how to make the light bulb work better, he literally tried everything lying around until he stumbled on the right filament. That is not dedication. People had been “inventing” the light bulb for about seventy years when Edison came along and made one good enough to mass produce and sell. Bamboo, carbon, and carbonized bamboo filaments were all used by earlier inventors. And Edison’s team, notably Lewis Latimer, made significant contributions to Edison’s “achievement.”
But that is not all. Back then, there was a big argument between Edison and a man called Nicola Tesla about the better type of electricity; AC (alternating current) and DC (directional current). To cut a long argument short, the AC is better the way we use it and we in fact use AC electricity. But anyway, Nicola Tesla was for AC electricity and proved its power by lighting a lot of streets with one flick of a switch at a World Fair. Edison was for DC electricity. To prove DC was "safer" than AC, he electrocuted animals with AC electricity (including an elephant) and "invented" the Westinghouse Chair, an electric chair which used AC electricity. Of course, both AC and DC electricity will electrocute you, there is no difference in that respect. But Edison was the jerk who tortured animals and people alike to get his point across.
Thomas Edison was a selfish individual and quite a ruthless businessman who fought ferociously to defeat his competitors in the battle of inventions. Selfishness is nothing uncommon, after all it is human nature. But the question is, if we take Thomas Edison to a God like inventor and deviate from facts, then we easily neglect that many good innovation development had been suppressed by his selfishness.
In our age, Apotheosis by now should be antique. A successful business man already got the monetary reward in his life and there is no need to make him become God. This is because it is hard to measure his way of defending his own benefit is actually promoting innovations or retarding them instead. This should also apply to Steve Jobs and Bill Gate.
Nonetheless, is a inventor must be a selfish person in order to get recognition? This may not be the case. A good example is Benjamin Franklin. He was also unequaled in America as an inventor until Thomas Edison. He invented the Franklin stove, bifocal eyeglasses and the lightning rod. Franklin was not greedy about his inventions, preferring to have them used freely for the comfort and convenience of everyone. Thomas Jefferson called Benjamin Franklin “the greatest man and ornament of the age and country in which he lived.”
I want you to know how much I love you. You have given a meaning to my life that I had no right to expect, that no one can ever take from me. I love you so much. And I want you to promise me something. I do not want you to ever worry about me. And if anything should happen, I am gonna be okay. And everything is gonna be all right. And I have no regrets. And I want you to feel the same way ......
Meet Joe Black · Father to Daughter
I am not a nice person
In fact, I am extremely selfish. I want you to be happy because I can only feel happy when the person I care feel good.
I am exceedingly greedy. I am not easy to satisfy with relationship that is only barter. I want something more. Some bonding that is not able to be bought.
I am remarkably cold. I would support you to have your own dream. I do not need to be sticking to each other all the time. I don't care the detail of everyday life. Even if we are apart in different places, as long as I believe you are with me then I feel warm and contented.
