DEAR SEAN:
I don’t like your writing because you are a dumbass.
Thanks,
I DON’T CARE IF YOU USE MY NAME
DEAR I-DON’T-CARE:
Let’s go back in time.
Now, of course, I don't know your personal story, but let's be theoretical here. Pretend your mother and father just met two minutes ago. The circumstances which brought them together don’t matter. Your parents probably feel something for each other.
This feeling is something I want to talk about. A feeling that gets stronger with each heartbeat. A warm, happy, thick, dripping, hot feeling.
Scientists might call it “energy.” We common folk call it “love.”
Whatever you call it, it is an intelligent thing, programmed into the body. A force greater than even your parents.
So one day, inside the dark and hushed womb of your mother, a fertilized embryo floats the white-water rapids of her insides. That loveable little egg manages to attach itself to a uterine wall.
Then, the Little Egg That Could, starts producing NEW CELLS. Each cell the SAME SIZE as its original zygote. And this eventually becomes you.
I know. This is almost too boring to stand. And to tell you the truth, I know about as much about science as a blind mule on a field trip to Dollywood.
So let’s use simple language here:
One small act of love made YOUR cells appear out of NOWHERE.
In other-other words: you’re a miracle. And it was love-energy that made you.
You are a walking talking collection of organs, a central nervous system, a conscience, and a receding hairline. Because of love.
You are a soul, and souls can be all sorts of things. They can be thoughtful, hardworking, ambitious, easygoing, understanding, kind, and certain souls are even lucky enough to be born as Cradle Episcopalians.
Souls have the power to be good, or not-so-good. Nice, or hateful.
But as we just discovered, hatefulness goes against…