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Last Night I Googled Longing
What I found surprised me
Last night I googled “longing.” What I found surprised me.
Ninety percent of the images were women — women dreaming, women staring out of windows, women brushing their golden hair beneath the full moon.
Oh… and lots of Goddesses, too.
Where were the men? Hunting buffalo? Watching the Superbowl? Mowing the lawn? OK. Maybe men don’t stare out windows or wait by the door for their wives to return home from war, but surely they are feeling something.
Surely, men want more out of life than just a cheeseburger, beer, and tattoo. According to Google, apparently not.
Are men incapable of longing? Not at all. It’s just gotten suppressed, gone underground to the place where even Google’s algorithms cannot find it.
“Longing is the cure of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure.” — Rumi
The reason? I’m guessing it has something to do with the male concept of survival. After all, wars, hunting, and politics aren’t all that conducive to inspired quests of the heart.
