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To love and be loved by someone is the most beautiful, moving, fulfilling and fantastic human emotion and experience!
Question is: Is the love we so talk and desire about real, genuine, permanent and unconditional?
Is it true to the very sense of the word - LOVE?
True love knows no bounds and consists of great sacrifice and care. It also embraces compassion, kindness, respect and thoughtfulness.
Genuine love has our interests at heart and it goes beyond sex, passion and sensual gratification. This love is the best and most mature in every way.
Real love comes with a lot of responsibility, commitment, understanding, tolerance, acceptance and humility.
It is true that in today’s world, it is easy to fall in love but to further develop, maintain and sustain the great feeling is another matter altogether.
The many divorces, marital breakdowns, broken families, suicides out of failed marriages and relationships, extra-marital affairs, one night stands and wild sex bring to mind just how people nowadays regard, treat and value the sanctity of love?
It is sad but true that people take love for granted and in the words of the great writer Robert Browing: “Take away love and with earth is a tomb”.
The world will indeed be a meaningless and cold place if it is devoid of love – the most powerful force in humans.
As we look around today, there is simply too much conflict, hostility, unrest, sorrow, fear, suffering and pain taking place the world over.
The time has come for us to turn hatred and ignorance into love and wisdom.
It is time everyone started to be more considerate and responsible and played a role in promoting the virtues of friendliness, kindness, compassion, forgiveness and giving.
Together, we can all make a difference and contribute towards making a better, merrier and meaningful world for all to live in.
Let us not hate but love each other instead and live by one spirit, one heart, and one aspiration as members of the human race!
Happy Valentine’s Day to all.
DAVID TIH,
Malacca.
