Feast of Love and the Gluttony of Love
The moral case for realizing that too much love can have negative impacts.
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When you're in love, it can feel like it's everywhere.
Like love is all around you that you'd never run out. No matter how much you might give away there's always more to feed on because it's everywhere. You can want it so badly that the only thing you can do is fill yourself up with it so you can give more away. There's no reason to be greedy and hold onto it because the opportunity to eat it up won't be going anywhere. When you live like that though, you can create all kinds of problems for yourself. You can be so blind to everything that's going on that you don't see that other people in your life are looking for love elsewhere. You think that love is everywhere but the people you're giving it to might not feel it, or could want it from someone else instead of you. Which doesn't mean that love isn't everywhere. Just that you aren't necessarily the person to give it to them.
So when they leave you for that other person, you can feel like you have lost it. Of course, that isn't necessarily a problem because love is everywhere. There's always someone else around the corner to love and be loved by in return. It's just a question of trying to find them so that you can gorge yourself again. Feed off the love of everyone around you because it seems like there's too much of it. The person you're finding it with might feel it too, and that's maybe the most beautiful part of all. Finding that person for which you never seem to run out of love and they never seem to get enough of yours. A love like that does happen but it's rare. It's the kind of love you need to hold onto and make sure it never gets away from you.
But at the same time, you need to make sure that you get as much as you can out of it. Even if the love itself will never run out, that doesn't mean the person won't. There's always the chance that the tragedy of life will happen and you will lose that love. Which means you have to get everything you can out of that love because it may never happen again in your life. Hopefully it will never end, but it might.
Feast of Love is fundamentally about having an abundance of love. Harry Stevenson, as played brilliantly by Morgan Freeman, is someone who has found that long lasting love. The kind which doesn't seem to ever run out of love to gorge on. He can't help but eat up every second of it. The people around him however, aren't necessarily as lucky. Bradley Smith, as played beautifully by Greg Kinnear, thinks he's found love with his wife, but she's looking for love in someone else... a woman. Chloe and Oscar have only just found love in each other, but it's not clear how long it will last.
Harry does his best to help them find the kind of love they can feast on, but it's sadly not that easy. That doesn't mean they aren't going to try though.
Do yourself a favour and become a glutton for love by checking out Feast of Love as soon as you can.
Feast of Love is available on Tubi as well as Amazon.
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