What is love but being drenched in sweet juice soothing the body, calming the mind, quenching the thirst, tingling the taste buds and sending the heart into ecstasy.
Many, aye, the majority of people may feel love at moments – some too fleetingly – but most may not understand a life filled with love. There are still some who don’t know love even while they may be the recipients or the protagonists of acts of love.
Love differs from person to person and there are few, very few, who could offer an explanation and an exhortation to love. Most would profess to have answers but people differ from the lover to the loved. There are many instances of unrequited love and at times forbidden love. How does one reconcile between the feelings, the acts of love and the real deal? Acts of love are just that, acts of love, and it may be an expression of love but it may not be love itself. The protagonist may consider it love, but the recipient may see it as merely an act of kindness or, at times, an obligation.
Love can best be understood using two extremes, both of which many will consider love. On the one hand, is the one who would risk their lives, their everything for another because of their deep-rooted love. They will forsake all and everything to ensure the safety and comfort of the other. On the other hand is the one whose heartbeat is the heartbeat of the other, that they long to be with each other, they share, they are intimate, they are lovers in mind, body and soul. They are young at heart and their love always raises the other to new heights.
These two extremes can though be reconciled and understood that they love each other that each is everything to the other. They understand that love in a relationship is not 50/50 but each gives 100%. They understand that each has needs and are keen to satisfy those needs. Yet they understand too that where needs are not satisfied, then it is not for the lack of desire to satisfy or for the lack of trying.
Ultimately, love is not merely through acts of love but love is the combination of those acts (of love), the spoken word (caressing, guiding, advising, humble, accepting, sincere, loving) and the touch (hugging, kissing, embracing, warm handshake).
We can increase that love amongst our loved one’s by being loving or perhaps more loving. We can start loving others by building on small acts of love to sharing and caring. Let broken marriages mend, family strife dissipate, neglected children understand love, dishonoured parents honoured, disrespected teachers respected and let love flow.
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