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From: Elda M. Balmocena
Category: Philosophy of Love
Date: 20 Nov 2000
I have seen movies of love with happy endings or quite the opposite.I have read novels of great love that conquered and of great love that failed.Love is fascinating indeed!But what is love?I do not have the knowledge nor have the complete information to boast for but I will try to write what I think love is.Love such a simple word with powerful meanings.Say the word and somebody would go bonkers.And when I say bonkers I mean being crazy without the personality disorder nor the brain damage.It is being crazy over someone.Daydreaming in the middle of the class,hearing music upon the mention of his name,ceasing of heartbeat upon seeing his face,and floating in the air everytime he says hello.Love is all these and more. Love is not just bouquet of dozen and dozen of different-colored flowers wrapped in fancy papers.It is not just the sweet tasting chocolates in golden foils and boxes.It is quite more than that.It is respect mixed with tenderness and passion.It is about sacrifice,being willing to go down with someone.I am a hopeless romantic and if i will have to give an example for that I would have to say Romeo and Juliet.It is about finding someone I would stay with through thick and thin.Love is like a flame that consumes my heart,my mind,my whole being.It burns within.Leaving me wanting for more.It cannot be satisfied by a passionate kiss or a romantic flare.It is more than bodily hunger.It is finding someone who have the power to turn my bleak days to pure bliss. If I would have to define love I would do it in the lines of a great poet who said that love is a twofold existence.Let me share my favourite lines,"Like a flight of the river that flows to the sea,my soul rushes ever in tumult to thee.A twofold existence I am where thou art,my hear in the distance beats close to thy heart."These lines would have to do with what I think love is.To love is to be complete with that special someone.To be filled up with his presence regardless of where he is,be it by my side or far awy.Love knows no boundaries.I have wrote down what I think love is.But still I know that I cannot truly captere its true meaning and cannot grapple yet its reality.For there is no greater mystery than love.An enigma I still have to experience.