My husband and I recently saw the off-Broadway play in New York City “Frankenstein: A New Musical.” Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote her story of “Frankenstein” in 1816 during a cold, wet, and dreary summer. She was with her husband Percy Shelley, the poet, and George Byron, his friend. The Frankenstein Musical joins the story with the music of Eric B. Sirota, Ph.D., composer, playwright, physicist, and scientific researcher. Dr. Sirota saw the short-lived Frankenstein on Broadway in 1981 and said, “I reread the book and heard the story sing in my head like a musical.”

As I watched “Frankenstein: A New Musical” unfold, I saw the creator, Dr. Frankenstein, watch the creature he created in his own image, in horror and fear. I wanted the creature to go away!

Dr. Frankenstein did not welcome his new creation as one would welcome his new baby with love, hugs, kisses, and smiles. When babies are born, they only have “blank pages”! My mom always said, “Be careful what you write on them!”

Dr. Frankenstein was immediately afraid of his creature from the first time he got up from the table under the sheet that covered him.

“The creature” from the beginning of its life saw only “fear” in the eyes of its creator.

Dr. Frankenstein wanted “the creature” to go away and he did. Fled! From that moment on, when people came into contact with him, they were scared by looking at his face. He felt scared and threatened. He protected himself by killing the person who threatened him!

It didn’t have to be this way! If Dr. Frankenstein had “loved and embraced” his creation from the beginning, the creature’s life would have been different!

Love makes all the difference in the world to others!

If the child had been loved, embraced and cared for from its first moment of life, as a newborn, it would have been happy, content and self-confident.

Love makes the difference!

When I was a little kid, I always remember my mom smiling at me, hugging me, and kissing me. No matter what happened in my young life, I knew that she loved me and cared about me. He spent time with me and I knew he cared!

The creature never received the care it needed from its creator, Dr. Frankenstein! Had he been loved instead, his face would have looked better. He might even have looked handsome with the scars. When we are loved, hugged, kissed, and cared for, we are happier people who care and can love others as well.

All people, even a monster, need someone to love and care for them. If they feel love, they are happy, they can smile and their faces change, and they become even beautiful when they are not!

If you look in the mirror and change your frown to a smile, you look 100% better! Try it! When we are loved, we look better, we feel better, and we are happier.

In all of life we ​​have a choice. Give others love, hugs and take care of them or make them terrify and fear us as “the creature”.

Think of the classic thugs of literature like Shakespeare’s character Iago in the play “Othello” and Darth Vader in the movie “Star Wars.” These men became bullies because they “did not love or care for them.”

As we are loved and cared for, the image changes within us, whether we are a person, a monster or an animal.

All living things need love!

Love makes the deference!

There is no substitute for love!

Former NFL football player Bill Glass had a ministry in prisons for many years. After speaking with thousands of men in prisons individually, he said: “I had never talked to a man in prison who really loved his father. Most of them hated their parents and took it out on themselves, drugs and money. alcohol, and the rest. ” of the society. “

Ninety-three percent of these inmates had these feelings.

Zig Ziegler says, through history and today, “the Jewish father tells his son, whether the boy is three, thirty, or sixty, he is still a son.”

Step one: “God bless you, my son.”

Step two: “I love you my son.”

Step Three: “Then give your child a big hug and, in many cases, throughout his life, a big kiss.”

Many other cultures also give this devotion.

For this New Year, what can you do to make the world a better place for yourself, your family, friends, family pets, and others?

Show others that you care by smiling, loving, hugging, and spending time with them to show them how special they are to you!

Say something nice to them. Make them feel welcome.

Love them and hold them tight. Pick them up. Don’t drag them down! Show them love, respect, and appreciation.

Be like Mother Teresa, not like Darth Vader! Love others.