Saturday, November 14, 2009
the seed of love.
it has almost been a year since i wrote an entry on this blog. it's amazing how time passes by. i've learnt a lot this year, but just never found time to jot my thoughts down. this blog is special to me for it contains my most earnest and innermost thoughts. it has also provided me with a space to reflect upon life. that is why i'm always hesitant in writing an entry. i only want to write when i can best stitch the multitude of thoughts that stream through my mind every single day in a somewhat coherent manner. haha. and i think i'm ready for an entry this year, though it is coming to an end.
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as much as we like to fool ourselves, a main constituent of life is love. love binds us. it transcends hatred. it is able to bring together people from all walks of life. but yet this simple word is hard to define. ask someone what a camera is, and they will tell you it is a device to capture photos (well, most. unless you meet someone who prefers going into detail on how it captures light that is reflected against the object being photographed). however, if you ask someone what love is, you'll get a range of different answers. you might even encounter people who are stumped or clueless about what love is. meet someone who is more cynical and they'll tell you that love does not exist.
so what is love? what is this complex feeling that is hard to describe, but yet yearned by many? is it even a feeling in the first place? could it perhaps manifest itself in words, actions, so on and so forth? we have heard so many times of people saying that they haven't met their true love (many of us may be guilty of this). but how can you know you haven't met your true love if you haven't met him or her? how can you be so sure of something if you haven't experienced it before?
honestly, i find it hard to address these questions myself. i'm not searching for an answer for i know it will be a futile attempt on my part. life presents to us many mysteries and love is one of them. we have conjured so many stories from folklore and ancient myths to assure us that each and everyone of us has a soulmate. someone who is a part of us; someone who completes us. and this gives us reason to continue on our search to seek out our other half (should we have not found him or her). but what if we are so fixated on this concept of love - that they can only be a certain person who is right for us - till we lose our sense of being? till we fail to take notice of the people around us; till we forget to love?
maybe love is like a seed. it has to be planted. time has to be given to nurture it, take care of it, and only then can it blossom. like all plants, it also requires constant attention. if you don't water a plant enough, the leaves will start wilting, and the plant may eventually die. just as love grows, love fades too.
perhaps then true love need not necessarily come in a complete package. and maybe the concept of meeting that perfect one is causing us to lose out on many other potential 'perfect ones'.
so why not try sowing a seed of love today? you'll never know what it may blossom into.
sarah. |
12:19 AM
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