Life’s Love

Love builds and rebuilds.

In recent times, I have learnt a lot about what it really means to live and what it means to be in love.

❗️ Disclaimer: This write up is thoroughly subjective and should be treated as that. It’s a mix of experience and emotions.

Life gives you a test and then teaches you in the aftermath from the lesson.

Experiences change you in ways you never thought possible and most times inadvertently, it breeds a new sense of self to you and helps you realise what it is you really want out of life and the certain standards you should uphold.

Being in love builds a certain character in you. It helps you realise what can be truly good in this world especially when you’re trying to find a meaning to it.

Being in love here, isn’t limited to having a spouse/ partner or being in an intimate relationship, it cuts across every sphere of life, from hobbies, to habits and also priorities to name a few.

When you’re in a loving relationship, you partner represents ( or should represent) an escape from the ills of the world, they’re supposed to be that new reality of what exactly it is you want life to be. Life is hard, regardless of your viewpoint. For some it’s financial, for others it could be mental or emotional, but there’s a challenge everyone is facing. What love represents is that reason to fight, that reason to dismantle the odds stacked against you just so you can achieve a level of fulfilment.

Like a mother to her child, love always precedes your sense of judgment.

Love activates a sense of belonging in your mind, it drills across what you think or feel should be the norm and completely alters what might be the right or sensible thing to do.

But true love, I mean that undisputed, unhinged mindless love is hard to find and even more difficult to maintain.

Ever fell in love with a skill and after some time you just… stopped?

That’s the tricky and scary part. You don’t want to start cause of how you think it might end, or you had an awful past experience and now you don’t want to give it another shot.

But the reality of things is that, that’s life’s love. It rises and then it doesn’t, it falters and if you don’t strengthen it, it ends.

Love, like every other thing that comes good and true, requires hard work and consistency for it to blossom.

Love in itself is difficult, it’s difficult to dedicate so much time and effort and attention to something or someone and maintaining it is even more of an Herculean task but the reality of things is that, it is worth it.

If you think about it precisely, love is the major point of existence.

Be it your love for travel, luxury or culture; you push and grind daily to attain that one thing or couple of things that you really love or on whose face you want to see a smile.

Cheers ✨