VIEWPOINT MAGAZINE Volume 5.1 October 2016 | Page 20

Opinion

“Worthy of
Worth?”

“Johnny
Smith:
Belonging”

by
Josiah Watanabe

by
Sarah Lee

A Benediction of
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Love
By: Faye Simanjuntak

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What does it mean, emotionally, to be human?

It’s a
question that leads to some of history’s most
intellectual arguments, disagreements and debates.
One that is capable of keeping us wide awake at night,
because the day in which we can finally answer that
question, we can also justify one’s life purpose,
existence, and meaning.
To multiple people, it would mean different things.
In a more pessimistic view, I would believe our core
emotion to be selfishness. All our emotions center on
ourselves. As humans, our first impulse is survival, to
be able to sustain our own lives. Our emotions are too
commonly centered on the thought of how we can
benefit for ourselves, not how we will help others. We
try to act like it is for the good of others, as though
we’re bringing someone up, when it’s prevalently
about us. We habitually pity ourselves over others, and
get consumed by our own problems and not those of
the larger society.
Yet many other people would disagree on this last
paragraph. As cliched as it sounds, numerous
individuals claim love as the prime human emotion.
Not the cliched romantic love, but a specific one from
all its different meanings. In the greek language, there

are many different words describing love, from
romantic to brotherly love. The most important, I’d
think, would be agape love, the Greek word
commonly associated with unconditional love.
Namely, it is God’s love,Volume
God’s love
never
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falters and is always steady, no matter how much we
all sin. (Who knows why exactly God gave us life?)
Personally, I think love is what drives us all to
commit the deeds we do. From sins to protect those
we feel responsible for, to blessings for others that
are not as fortunate as we are.
Like I said earlier, I don’t know the exact answer,
but I think God made humans to love Him, to love
each other, and to love the world.
In Romans 5:8 it says, “but God shows his love
for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died
for us.” God died for us even though we sinned. He
loved us much more than we could ever imagine.
We are sinners, and even though we don’t deserve
Him, He loves us. We are all blessed to be human
beings. But are we going to see this blessing as a
condemnation of selfishness, or a benediction of
love? It’s completely up to us.

“Italy:

Rising
“A New Friend”
by
From the
Amanda
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