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Original: 2/7/2008 6:24 AM

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Thursday, February 07, 2008
 
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Love Is Red
By David Poe
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The Art of Belligerence (aka "perseverance")

Belligerence.  The very word itself brings up thoughts of aggression, violence, stubbornness or any other sort of thing our culture typically filters as negative.  Indeed, all of those things can be true.  We live in a world infected with a gross propensity to excess and perversion.  I'm sure we've all been victims, in one way or another, of at least one of those qualities gone bad.  For that matter, I'm sure I've been the perpetrator of such acts at one time or another.

However, these images don't have to be so negative and, in fact, the very art of belligerence can be the very thing that keeps us going when we simply can't muster what usually feels more like hope - this bright, airy mental breath of fresh air that says, "yeah, I believe things will be better."

My therapist tells me that Hope isn't a place you live.  It's the momentary stops along the way that fill your sails with wind and keep you going.  Well, okay, he didn't say it like a Hallmark card. I'd drop him like a subscription to CCM if he talked like that.  He said it exceedingly more tough than that. However, the point is still the same.  Like it or not, this nice blissful place we call hope is, more than not, something that's perpetually out of reach most of the time.  Sure we find it every now and then, but like that pair of fingernail clippers that you know you've got but never can seem to find, it seems ever elusive minus the moments you stumble upon it and think, "Oh yeah.  That's where it is.  I'll have to remember that for later when I need it."

And then, like Keyser Soze, it's gone again.

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