What’s LOVE got to do
with it?
Hi friends, so it is
that season of the year where everyone begins to carry goose-bumps and belly
butterflies around right? Whether directly or indirectly, everyone is somewhat
affected by the concept of Valentine, the celebration of romance or love or
lovers or history or sainthood or whatever perception we have of it eventually.
I would like to take a
moment to wish everyone a very SCINTILLATING VALENTINE. As a proponent of love,
I want to dare you all to intentionally show the world the amount of love we
got on the inside! Trip someone’s feet, fly someone on top of the world, and
produce a smile on someone’s face deliberately. I am not asking for a random
act of kindness, I am asking for a deliberate show of love to your world, those
you can see around you, familiar and
unfamiliar faces, even our natural environment, animals, plants etc. Give your
world a better treat of love. Let someone know you are there LOVING them from a
spot, or motion. Not just for a day, no, for a season, this season at least.
Now I wouldn’t want to
go into history of Saint Valentine, neither do I intend to bore you with what
you already know. Love happens anyways to everyone at some point, and your
definition of it is what is relative and very personal. Love like art holds a
very strong sense of personal perception as standard without so much of any
external infringement or influence. In order words, like art, your evaluation
of it is actually what it is for you. No one can truly judge you on that. It
doesn’t really matter whether it is what is generally accepted or not as
standard, as far as it is what you see, and what you feel, to you, that is what
is real. What you are able to see personally in it is what is true for you.
Love to most people is
both emotional and mental and physical. Love takes all of you to prove a point.
You cannot truly love partially, you can lust partially, but never truly be
able to love partially. When you love a thing, you love it completely; the
good, the bad, and the ugly of it. Else, you have not truly loved it and true
love has not truly come without that reality.
The story for today for
which I want to glean one or two lessons from is a simple one and am still not
quite sure if it is truly factored on love or something else, although a lot of
people might disagree I realise. It is akin to the popular Shakespeare’s Romeo
and Juliet story.
A lady gave her kidney
to save the love of her life, after he was fine, the family insisted the lady
is beneath their son to marry him, they do not belong to the same class. They
told the lady off that while they are grateful for her help, they wouldn’t want
her to see their son again. She was devastated, they were in love. He planned
to elope with her. His parents found out and double crossed them, took their
son away and the lady beaten to stupor for human theft. She was hospitalized
and released to discover her love has been flown out of town. She immediately
sank into depression. The guy too became sick to the point of death that he
insisted the only thing he wanted was her. But too much has happened, the lady didn’t
survive without him. When the family
brought their son back to beg the lady, they found she was gone and the guy
lost all hope and went after her too. Their love and life was sniffled on the
basis of culture, class, and social difference. Love seemed not enough to save
them.
Now, this tragedy like
the Romeo and Juliet saga that often happens under the guise of love, my
question really is, what's love got to do with it? Is this a consequence of a
love gone bad or a common sense gone missing. What is the measure and extent of
the love of a parent to their child as compared to that of a lover to another
lover, which is greater and which is lesser? Or could it just be a general
fault from all involved that there seems to be a lack of wisdom for self-preservation
and excitation when one seems to be at the expense of the other. When you want
what you can't have or have what you can't want whichever the case. Well, I
expect to hear your views and contributions to the fact.
The lesson here is this;
The heart seems a
flirt, it loves freely whom it will but when it does, do not forget your mind
in the process.
Secondly, when love
happens, nothing else is certain. So, unless ready for the price, do not permit
the pressure of desire to cage you.
Thirdly, everything in
life comes with its own cost, even love.
Anyways, that’s the
little I want to say for a love that ends badly, not all love ends that way.
Some love stories have good and great ending. But before you make LOVE your
excuse for life, please consider the cost.
WHAT CAN YOU LEARN ALSO
FROM THIS?
Thanks for reading,
love you big big and again HAPPY VALENTINE EVERYONE!.
