Compact Disco Says

So, it's another Monday morning here in beautiful, climatologically mercurial San Francisco. Everyone's running for his coffee or chatting at the water cooler, and life again returns to the normal weekday routine. The morning here at ECast so far has not troubled me with work so much, as the shared drive where my project is stored is being systematically broken by our ever-resourceful IT staff. Kudos, indeed.

So, because I have some reasonably free time on my hands, I'd like to pose a question to you all. Please feel as free as a bird (Thank you, Paul and John) to answer as candidly as you might like. My question involves love, both specific and in the abstract. What I would like to know is what you all believe love is for you, what you think it means to others, and what you think two people or you and someone else could overcome with love on your side. As we get older, and more set in our routines and building up a lifetime of diversions and distractions for ourselves, are we merely enriching our own lives, or are we in fact supplanting our truly human need for love? As we get older, are we less likely to compromise with someone in the name of love? With the pace of life continuing to quicken and showing no signs of slowing any time soon, has love become obsolete even? I mean, as a species, are we running so fast that we do not have time to give proper attention to anyone but ourselves? And what about when love seems to truly win, when two people make a committment to each other. How do you make it last? How do you keep the fires burning for a lifetime? How many people actually stay together because they couldn't possibly want to be with anyone else, and how many stay because of emotional and physical inertia?

This isn't really coming from anywhere except a place of curiosity on your feelings on these or related questions. I couldn't help but wonder...