Is the Tree of Life Growing For You?

"The only way to be happy is to love. Unless you love, your life will flash by." I've been thinking about this since I saw "The Tree of Life" starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn four days ago. We all need love in our lives, right? We need to love and we need to be loved, but are we all finding love? I mean true love... not just love for now. Some choose not to love, because they fear they'll be hurt. We all know the saying "'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." But what if we can't find true love, will our lives flash by? I feel like it will. People go through different phases of life - childhood, high school, college, the working world, relationships, marriage, kids, success, failure, hardship, joy, retirement and so many other things, but if there's no love mixed in, doesn't your life tend to feel like one big phase, instead of a bunch of different ones? If you spend your whole life working and not focusing on what really matters, what do you end up with at the end of your life? I'm thinking probably not a whole lot. What do YOU think?