You may hear the pundits and \u201cwise men\u201d say that we need this\nperson to run the U.S. or that company to fix the economy. As I waken to a new\nyear, I am convinced that these are distractions to what we really need. We\nneed more love in 2020. And unlike the other things that we \u201cneed\u201d, and there\nare many, love is something that we all have to give and, magically, no one can\nprevent us from giving it either. Let\u2019s explore why love is what we need this\nyear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Love is one of the most deeply rooted emotions. We know this. When we are loved, we wake up. When we aren\u2019t, we either pretend we are or we shrink and stifle\u2014both recipes for unpleasant outcomes. Research tells us that babies need love, preferably from their parents but, ultimately, from someone. This need continues as people grow (here is but one of millions of articles on this, link<\/a>). Clearly, it is something we all need as it makes us more fully human and more fully our authentic selves as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Love conquers evil and hatred. We all know this too. How\nmany times have we heard\/seen\/experienced what happens when someone responds to\nhatred with love? Most of the time, hatred is neutralized. People prefer love.\nThis love may come in the form of listening. It may come in the form of an\nhonest attempt to understand someone. It may come in the form of affection. No\nmatter. Love has power. There is a lot of hatred and misunderstanding in our\nsociety. Love can do a ton to remedy these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Love is something we can all do. It can start with a phone\ncall or an email. It can start with a knock on a neighbor\u2019s door. It can start\nwith a \u201cthank you.\u201d Try these \u201csmall acts of kindness\u201d and see where it leads.\nTry doing them intentionally, each day. See what happens. Start with smaller\nacts of love and build up to larger ones. See what happens. See what happens to\nthe person\/people you love and see what happens to you as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A lot of people I know are depressed right now. They are listening\nto the \u201cpundits\u201d too much. This leaves them feeling angry and hopeless (but wanting\nto buy more things to assuage their frustrations). (Ever wonder why this is?\nMight it be intentional\/deliberate, a natural outcome of those that run the\nnetworks?) I hope these individuals try to love more (and turn off the TV\nmore). I really do, they have so much love to give.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Love isn\u2019t all we need (as John Lennon wrote) but it is what\nwe need. There are many challenges that face us. Let us work on them. Let\u2019s\nlead with love and see what happens. Here is to 2020, a year we all will\nremember!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You may hear the pundits and \u201cwise men\u201d say that we need this person to run the U.S. or that company to fix the economy. As I waken to a new year, I am convinced that these are distractions to what we really need. We need more love in 2020. And unlike the other things … Continue reading “Love is what we need in 2020”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenges","category-solutions","category-war-peace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7BrNb-4e","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarutopia.org\/onehuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarutopia.org\/onehuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarutopia.org\/onehuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarutopia.org\/onehuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarutopia.org\/onehuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/solarutopia.org\/onehuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/solarutopia.org\/onehuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarutopia.org\/onehuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarutopia.org\/onehuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarutopia.org\/onehuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}