Seduction by Irene Owens

“In both love and war, we are human—thank God.” –Chronicle: At the End of the Dark Tunnel.

Human, then? Human, with all our flaws; human, in all our capacity for mistakes; human in our innate mercy that need only be awakened; human in our passion that need only be stoked to catch fire?

In love and war we have our deepest, strongest, fiercest emotions awoken—the sunbursts of love, devotion, lust, compassion, selflessness, and the fires of fury, hatred, vengeance, vendetta… two twin passions: twins in the intensity of feeling, opposite in their motives.

Human, we face a ceaseless struggle within us: emotion versus reason; logic versus feeling; doing versus being. One must be in balance with the other; otherwise, when emotion overrides reason, there is love, or there is war. Where there is love, there is capacity for selflessness, jealousy, sacrifice, blindness, and mercy—as in war. They are the two greatest catalysts in the universe—nothing great was ever achieved without passion: the power of love and the drive of war. And as such, they bring out and prove the very best or worst in us all. We are humans, but in the throes of passion we have this vision of being more-than-human, of becoming greater, stronger, deeper, wiser, godlike visions of our souls. This belief—be it illusion or undiscovered ability—is part of that which makes us human, after all.

The core of our nature, the DNA of our emotions, be it the darkness of human flaws or the brightness of “humanness”— ultimately, this is what proves us human—and… thank God.

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