#20 Guerra, Lenina Ryce 1D-PH

Love Is Love

"To love, therefore, is to face even what is uncalled for and to manifest unselfish goodwill

towards the other. It could be painful in the process but love will find a way to surpass it. That is

why there is resurrection in every instance if death."

-Love's Pain Is Its Own Redemption

"You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars and the constellations of outer

space. Please, my darling, say that you will go steady with me, for if you will not, life will be

meaningless."

-Love Is A Fallacy

"Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.”

-Sonnet CXVI

From the three literary pieces I have read, these are the lines that have struck me the

most. It is true that talk of love excites a lot of people. That is because everyone has their own

opinions on love. One example is the literary piece "Love's Pain Is Its Own Redemption", where

it is stated that there are different myths on love like 'love at first sight', 'true love never dies', and

many others. Everyone tries to concretize love and create their own rules on how to love. But I

believe that love is abstract. Love can never be explained in words or actions. It doesn't have a

rulebook or a dictionary. Love is simply love. There is no definite understanding of it, and there

is no definite amount that can be given to another or kept for oneself. In Shakespeare’s Sonnet

116, it is said that love does not alter. Love is constant, and if there is love between two people,

then it is certain that it will not change, it will not falter because of mere wrinkles in the

relationship.

I believe that love is simply loving another as you would love yourself: with no limits, no

prohibitions, no requirements or rules. There is no such thing as the three-month rule, or the bro

code. Once love is felt, everything else falls into place and there are no words to describe the

feeling. Love knows no bounds, and so must we. Love is a fallacy, but only because there is no

such thing as perfect love. It will commit a lot of fallacies, and make a lot of mistakes, but love

between two people will still be love, even if there are a million reasons to prove otherwise.

A wise person once told me that love transcends human reason. And I think that that is

the truest and most honest statement about love that I have ever heard. Because there should be

no reasons for love. Whether it is gratitude, or physical attraction, love must be felt completely

and without a concrete reason, because once you have felt unconditional love for another, that is

the time that you have found the true meaning of love, and that is one that will never be found in

the dictionary or in any book you will ever read. Because love is not meant to be defined, it is

meant to be felt.