What's LOVE got to do with it?

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!.