{"id":471,"date":"2016-10-01T11:10:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T16:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleytauriac.com\/blog\/?p=471"},"modified":"2016-10-01T09:59:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T14:59:10","slug":"where-is-the-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashleytauriac.com\/blog\/where-is-the-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is the Love?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I used to love this song the first time it was released- I loved that it hit so much of reality and had so many good lines. But this time I went through and looked at the comments underneath the video one day and was\u00a0shocked at how harsh and blind and awful people can actually\u00a0be. <\/span><\/p>\n

But the thing that surprised me most about the video- I guess because I knew the original so well- is that they took out a great lyric that used to say, \u201cIf you never know truth you\u2019ll never know love.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

The problem is not that we don\u2019t have enough knowledge of what\u2019s happening in the world, far too often the problem is that we have completely lost the definition of love.<\/strong> <\/span>We act like love is a feeling that can be switched on, changed, and demanded. True love is refusing to give up on those who don\u2019t always care, don\u2019t understand, and don\u2019t always love you back. Love is not always perfectly agreeing with everyone around you. Sometimes love is being brutally honest with someone in order to save them <\/a>from something that was hurting themselves. Love is not accepting people because they do the right thing. Love is holding onto them even when they don\u2019t <\/a>(me myself and I).\u00a0Love is not pretending there is no wrong. Love is being\u00a0completely honest <\/a>about things that aren’t right. \u00a0Sometimes love is dying for someone. Sometimes it\u2019s being willing to live for them- present, awake, listening, and trusting as you go. True love is not even the absence of bad things happening, like this song implies- love is the response to the bad things that do happen.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n