Is love real?

[Spongebob]

It really isn't. I've tried meditating. It doesn't work.

To be clear, saying meditation works or doesn't work is a misnomer.  Meditation can have many positive outcomes.  It has benefitted me greatly, but it did take some time before I was able to see positive results.  It isn't a light switch.  Like Yoga, it take practice and patience to see the value.  Like many things in life, its a skill that requires development.

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Nah dude, that's just the way it is. Can't change what was meant to be.

That's self-fulfilling prophesy.  I can name you a thousand things people have changed for the better.  What if everyone said, nah, can't change segregation; it was meant to be.  What if they said, nah, can't change Nazi Germany, it was meant to be.  So we should all just ignore anything that isn't good and accept the world as it is?  Sorry, that's a defeatist attitude and demonstrably false philosophy.