Valentine Love for Cupid! Sigh. Blissful sighs. Here I am, feeling like a gorl-cupid, filled with love...er..I mean that in a figurative sort of way....okay???
Right!!! Now, where was I???
Yes...here I am, contented, at peace, happy and feeling sappy enough to write a virtual valentine to the world and...and intertwine it with love so sweet that the thought of lacing it with spypig never even got close to the threshold of my mind.
I pause to roll my eyes...er...with love of course...at all those who would never believe me.
Okay, that bit off my heart, now where was I? Oh yes, here is what I wrote with love to encompass all there ever was, all there ever is and all there ever will be...
I pause for a split second to sigh with more bliss...and then it hits me. What if no one believes me????
Yikes!!!
"Hey Universe of Mine, you don't believe me, do you? Hmm. Oh, well, too bad because I think you are integral, so integral, other universes would fry up if you get any more integral...and you know what else, my darling universe...
I LOVE YOU!!!!
Yes, I love you when you make me mad, I love you when you make me laugh and I love you when you stab me in the back even when I am looking. Heck, I've so much love for you, I think I'd love you even if you pour vinegar down my throat, nail me to a cross and halved, quartered and yike...I sound like Jesus but what the heck, I still maintain that I love you no matter what and yes, my universe, even if you are stinky, I'd still love u..."
And that's as far as I got because suddenly I felt a presence and look up to find Cupid staring at me with slightly perplexed expression.
"Have you gone mad?" He asked the question as if he only just found out the universe is made up one part illusory hate and one part solid Cupid.
"Hello there." I say, thoroughly surprised to see Cupid...yikes...er...in all his glory. He's such a sweet, little force...er...non-literally speaking. And wow. No wonder I'm feeling so...um...er...loving. This little Eros must have shot a whole quiver of arrows into me while I wasn't looking...
"Hi." He blushes.
"Good to see you!!!" I say with awe. "And to answer your question, um...no...I'm feeling quite sane, actually."
Cupid sighs heavily before glowering. "Well...it's not possible to love the whole world and even if I shot a whole quiver of arrows into each and every being on this planet, it will still not be possible."
I stare aghast. I never!!! I never thought I'd seen the day when Cupid would say such a thing...and on Valentine's day of all days!!!! Cripes!!! Lord!!! The 'God of Love' thinks it's not possible to love the whole world!!! *Gulp* How come I am sure it's possible???? Is something wrong with me??? Ya know, there are times when I felt as if a goat bit me in sacred places!!!
Oh well!!! Well!!! Well!!! Hell!!! Too bad, this is not one of those times!!! And that's it!!! Cupid's off my Christmas list!!!! I scowl..er...with love of course!!!
"Maybe..." I say slowly before rolling my eyes at Cupid. "And maybe, you're the one making me say those things...you hit me with your best...er...love dart...remember?"
Cupid blinks rapidly. "But I never hit u with any of my arrows. In fact, I no longer take the risk of shooting arrows into anyone unless they pay beforehand..." He pauses. "Hey, don't look at me like that...blame the economy..."
My mouth is still hanging open. Is Cupid trying to tell me that the "love" he's been busily shooting into us for the past era was all about commerce??? That "valentine love" was devised by man-made art rather than by nature???
"Huh?" I stare at him with all the disillusionment I felt. Unholy love!!!! What's this world coming to???? Yikes!!!! If it wasn't for the busted economy, I would have never seen this little Shorty's true colors!!!
"Don't look at me like that." Cupid pleads. And then, his feature turns slightly belligerent. "What??? Ya didn't know my arrows cost money?????
Yikes! I'd no idea...in fact, I always thought...
"So..." Cupid interrupts my thoughts. "How do you do it...how come you are capable of loving the whole world without my love-infected arrow?"
"Why should I tell you?" I demanded...er...with love of course...and then it dawns. Wow. Cupid needs love advice from me??? Something must be right with me after all!!!
Cupid smiles in a sort of shame-faced way. He shuffles his short cherub feet and adjusts his empty quiver. "It might earn me some credit in the universe...you know...I need this more than ever since the current economy doesn't allow me to squander arrows..."
Ah. Suddenly, I am filled with even more compassion and understanding. I spoke slowly. "To love the whole world even when it tries to make you hate it is the toughest thing of all and yet..." I pause for the words to filter into Cupid's heart-shaped brain. "and yet, it's the easiest thing ever..."
The little love god frowns. "I don't understand."
I make a face. "It's all about a certain understanding of the universe and why it works the way it does...and once you have this secret knowledge at your fingertips...(to know when to be all accepting or non-accepting)...you're better equipped to survive in style and harmony ..."
Cupid looks slightly mystified. "Huh?"
I sigh. "Ah, Cupid...you're an eternal child....but even children might be able to see that to the universal mind, this world is perfect...to the individual mind, it's imperfect. Neither is right, neither is wrong. This universe is flexible and every mind is capable of molding and stretching it to their liking."
Cupid brows clear. "That makes some sense. Go on."
I smile. "When you view things through the universal mind, the world becomes a laughing matter...(and yet from the other end it's not so funny) ....and it fills you with love and compassion but that doesn't mean you won't ever be bombarded with emotions such as hatred and anger...."
Cupid is deep in thought. "I see."
Hmm. It's about time he saw. I continue. "Through the individual mind, the world becomes a crying matter, and you are bound to be straddled by all the unnamed emotions...but that doesn't mean you won't feel love and compassion as well..."
"So." Cupid pursed his lips and blew a curl out of his eyes. "I don't understand how viewing the world through the collective mind will make hatred for my backstabbers vanish in mid-air." He pouts as if he has the most back-stabbers in the world...which must be karma for all the front stabbing he shoots out. "I don't see the 'funny' at all."
"Omg!" I say. "Can't you see how we are constantly trying to cut our nose to spite our face but don't know it? How can we not see that when we hurt another, we are merely hurting ourselves? God, we're so cute!!!! " I laugh out loud. "Some of us are even more suicidal than that....I mean how can we not see we are part of the whole and yet...it's great we can't see this!!!. So small wonder. We're like the programmed jakal who steals other animals' babies to feed her own. Sure, Nature designed creatures like her to keep the balance in the animal world but we're gods and humans for crying out loud...what's the point of calling ourseves humans if we can't see beyond the path Nature laid out for us??????"
"Hmm." The God of Love says. "So humans can survive without letting their Nature dictate to them????"
"Perhaps." I say.I'm already out on an unsure limb so why not blabber some more. And that's another funny thing about this universe, the know-it-all like me are the blabber mouths who don't know anything at all. "If we can see beyond the programmings, we're better equipped to adapt consciously instead of blindly....yes, even when circumstances are beyond our control."
Ha. Put me in a barren desert and see if I don't eat my own hand to survive. Put me in the shoes of a mother whose children has been slightly hurt and see if my killer instinct don't rise to the surface like a stomping mad wild, wild west, Yo Samite Sam and his pistol.
"Ah." Cupid smiles. "When we view the whole world through the universal mind, it's easier to accept...."
"Yes." I say. "We're able to understand why half of the world will try to push us along while the other half of it will try to hinder us.....that it's all about the forces and the law of compensation which are always on the move to keep the universe in balance..." I let out a wise sigh for effect.
"Duh...that I never saw it this way." Cupid says.
"The forces that come to pull you back are really the forces that will make you stronger, keep you fitter for survival...so these are the forces who do not know by pulling you back, they are actually pushing you along....they cannot see that in order to hold you back, they are holding themselves back...so really and truly, we need negative forces in our lives as much as we need the positive ones." I am out of breath but I can't stop talking. It's all Cupid's fault for being such an easy-peasy listener. "And whether we surrender or stand firm at the feet of the stronger force--"
"Ah." The sweet little force appears suddenly enlightened. "I get it! I get it!!!" And before I could even blink, he's literally on the floor laughing his head off. I smile. Poor little sucker thinks he's enlightened. Wait until he finds out this world is an illusion and yet it's not. "This world is filled with irony." I raised my voice a notch higher hoping it would cut through Cupid's laughter. "Kill another and you kill yourself. Perhaps not literally, but you will no longer be the same person. You'll be reborn into a new being....but a painful rebirth it shall be...whether you're filled with regret and remorse or with more anger and hatred."
But alas, the little Eros is too busy laughing with the world...and he should be for he's after all, the God of Love.
Oh well, well, well. Heaven. Now that "love" has been fully re-established inside the God of Love, happy Valentine, dear world of mine. If you ever read this, you would know for sure that Cupid and I, we love you...
Here I am, feeling like a gorl-cupid, filled with love...er..I mean that in a figurative sort of way....okay???
...I'd like to send you a valentine line...
Cupid sighs heavily before glowering. "Well...it's not possible to love the whole world and even if I shot a whole quiver of arrows into each and every being on this planet, it will still not be possible."
"Maybe..." I say slowly before rolling my eyes at Cupid. "And maybe, you're the one making me say those things...you hit me with your best...er...love dart...remember?"
The little love god frowns. "I don't understand."
Cupid brows clear. "That makes some sense. Go on."
"So." Cupid pursed his lips and blew a curl out of his eyes. "I don't understand how viewing the world through the collective mind will make hatred for my backstabbers vanish in mid-air." He pouts as if he has the most back-stabbers in the world...which must be karma for all the front stabbing he shoots out. "I don't see the 'funny' at all."
And that's another funny thing about this universe, the know-it-all like me are the blabber mouths who don't know anything at all. "If we can see beyond the programmings, we're better equipped to adapt consciously instead of blindly....yes, even when circumstances are beyond our control." 
I smile. Poor little sucker thinks he's enlightened. Wait until he finds out this world is an illusion and yet it's not. "This world is filled with irony." I raised my voice a notch higher hoping it would cut through Cupid's laughter. "Kill another and you kill yourself. Perhaps not literally, but you will no longer be the same person. You'll be reborn into a new being....but a painful rebirth it shall be...whether you're filled with regret and remorse or with more anger and hatred." 
