#37 Pesigan, Lea Ellana E. May 5, 2015

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What is love? This is a question that I’m sure, many have asked, and yet only few have

ever answered it back. Nowadays, many people have a hard time finding words to

express this intense feeling. It may sound a bit cliché that I am attempting to answer this

unanswerable question, but really, what is love? For me, love is a state of willingness to

sacrifice something good to something better.

The article emphasized several myths that will describe our common perception about

love. Myths that sometimes being used as our basis and standard on love. In fact, many

dwell too much on them to the point that they expect exactly on what was stated there.

On the other hand, I then realized that they are just way of guiding us and helping us to

certainly understand what love is but actually each and every one of us has a different

way of defining it.

Many says that when you are in love, it hurts terribly. As what was stated in the article

“Love’s pain is its own redemption”, love is certainly painful but then again will make you

grow and be stronger. Basically, pain plays a significant role in finding one’s way to

love. Love and pain aren’t the same thing but they are directly proportional to each

other. The more you love someone, the more they can hurt you and the more you can

hurt them. Love can manifest in painful ways because the emotion exists while

deterrents exist. They run together concurrently; maybe parallel lines that are bisected

by particular incidents and other turbulent emotions. But this doesn’t necessarily mean

that love has evaporated and has been replaced by abuse.

I remember a line from a poem written by Shakespeare entitled “Sonnet 116”: true love

always perseveres, despite any obstacles that may arise. Shakespeare goes on to

define love by claiming that it stays constant, even though people and circumstances

may change. Love never dies, even when someone tries to destroy it because for him

love is eternal and unchanging.

Honestly, I took a long time reflecting on what I read from the said article but let me

share the insight I gained from it. A heart that’s truly in love never loses hope but always

believes in the promise of love, no matter how long the time and how far the distance.

Love has its time, seasons and reasons. As my favorite line in the article says, “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 of death”.