A Life without Love
There are certain undeniable truths about reality. Things like prime numbers only being divisible by themselves or one, or the famous saying "I think, therefore I am" are both examples of undeniable truths. These things are constant whether you believe in them or not. One undeniable truth that I have discovered is that life, in every instance, is a zero-sum game. If you are having a good time, if you attain success, if you achieve a goal or just feel happy-- then it is always at the expense of someone else. For everyone who experiences a high in their life, someone else is experiencing a low.
This isn't always a conscious thing, like you have to screw someone over intentionally to get something you want (though that is often the case as well). Most of the time it's just a psychic game where people close to you will be experiencing lows while you experience highs and vice versa when the time comes to switch places. I've called this "switch theory" to be funny and make it sound silly to others but it's completely real.
When you interact with someone you are almost always going to be forming a psychic link of some sort with them. The more you interact and the more intimate your interactions, the stronger and more noticeable the psychic link will be. People often think that they can just play around with people with no consequences. They don't internalize that every time you interact with someone, every time you say "hello" to a new person, you are opening a can of worms and tying this person to your life forever. They will never be "gone" and the deeper and more substantial your interactions are, then the stronger the psychic bond will be. You will potentially end up being tied to them in a way where their peaks are connected to yours-- both inversely and conversely. A person dying is really the only thing that can break the psychic seesaw game that gets played out every day.
These psychic links are 100% real and very powerful. I have experienced them with people close to me where I know what they are doing when I am not actually around to see what they're doing. You may end up doing the same thing at the same time independently of one another. You may sense each other's emotions even if you don't communicate. You can also tell about this stuff with the timing of certain events involving these people and how it correlates to other things going on at the same time. It's interesting stuff and it never really goes away.
This is why I have always been cautious about speaking to new people. I rarely ever go out of my way to talk to a new person because I don't want more forces of chaos in my life than I already have. I do this for psychic reasons of course, but I also do this for more tangible reasons. Like I said life is a zero-sum game. If you're winning, it's at the expense of someone losing. This isn't just a psychic thing though, this can also be very explicit and the result of actions. You could choose to screw someone over in the office by spreading lies about them so that you get a promotion and they don't. Someone else could steal money from you.
A big factor that goes into coming out on top in life is your outlook. If you have too much empathy you will be torn apart like prey. If you have too little, you won't be able to recognize mutually beneficial situations and will probably end up self-destructing. Your outlook also determines how you perceive your outcome. So, for example, if you are a generally positive person then it won't take much for you to perceive yourself as "winning". Vice versa, if you're generally negative it won't take much for you to feel like you've "lost".
Like I said this is all an undeniable truth. And if you have a soul then I'm sure you've picked up on how depressing and miserable this is and what this means for life in general. It means you have to be cruel, remorseless, callous, and selfish to truly get ahead in the best way. And it means that if you show kindness or forgiveness or altruism then you run the risk of being punished for it. It's really genuinely sickening and it's why I try to stay out of a lot of stupid little games in life. Because I really don't want to play these corrupt games that way. It makes me nauseous to think that not only do people do this all their lives, but they actually enjoy it and think they're "good" at the game.
There really is only one thing that breaks this game and lets you be free of it: love. Love is a powerful force and I'm sure to someone reading this that may sound cheesy, but it's very true. I'm not talking about hippie "hey man all you need is love man" or relying on feelings and impulse or anything like that. That's all nonsense and isn't what love-- true love-- is actually about.
True love-- which has the power to lift you out of the dumb little win-lose game of life-- is about self-sacrifice. Showing true love for someone is letting yourself lose and being content to lose so that they can win. The game doesn't go away, the way you view it just changes. If you truly love someone then them winning is the same thing as you winning, even if it's at your expense somehow. A very mundane example would be if you and your parent share a car and you both want to use the car at a specific time. You can either play the win-lose game which ends in someone getting screwed over and not getting the car; or you can show selflessness and let them use the car out of love, which will allow both of you to be the "winners" of that little game. Because you're both getting what you want.
So I suppose the undeniable truth is a little more complex than I originally put it. Life isn't just a zero-sum game. It's more accurate to say that without love, life is a zero-sum game.