Love and Immortality

It has been shown that we perish emotionally and spiritually for the lack of qualitative love. There is an irrefutable link between our need for love and our desire for immortality. 
Why do we seek to achieve, to advance beyond our peers, to seek recognition and honor among others?  It is our inherent need for love; of being found admirable; of finding worth in the evaluation of other people.  This translates into our equal need to be remembered as we are noticed; to be admired as we seek to do something that will insure we will be long remembered; to create a legacy that others will know we have been here.
 In the long run we know that if life is to have any meaning it must be lived in such a way that we will be noticed. It is the very recognition of us by others that gives us a sense of significance not only in our present lives but in the future.  If we are not noticed for our good deeds there is a perverted inclination to be noticed for our evil ones.  This explains the behavior of the serial killer. 
 No human, even those with notoriety, wants to go down to the grave without having lived “significantly.”  Few will admit they do not want to live forever.  If they do, they still long for some significance in the memory of those who will follow which is a form of immortality.
The human spirit unusually beautiful when we think of human achievement.  We admire it because there is something superlative about the human spirit in comparison to all other life as we know it.  The very longing of humans to be transcendent is recognition of this and the reason we seek love and admiration.  Jews, Christians and even the Greek philosophers wrestled with this and generally recognized that we have the image of God stamped in our natures (imago Dei) or at least are like the “gods.”
Moderns may have no liking for this type of discussion but they are nevertheless caught with either facing it or blatantly ignoring it as they seek love and significance in their lives.   Honesty demands that we either admit our proclivity for immortality or stop our talk about what is good, fair, just, and beautiful.  Such discussions are simply the effect of our looking for something that is beyond or immortal.