Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, the will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is LOVE."
- 1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Love love love, the bible cannot make it any clearer and I have no idea why my bookmark was on that page of the bible. If I have not loved, I am nothing and I gain nothing. But yet we are afraid to love, afraid to get hurt, afraid that it will end up in a broken heart. Love is patient and kind, for it does not envy nor boast. If we have a love that is jealous, like we cannot accept that the person we like likes someone else instead of us, that sounds more like lust as love is patient and does not envy. Who we choose to love is our own choice, however not everyone we fall for will like us. There will be times when we get rejected and feel dejected ... why do I suddenly write in rhymes...?
People should be honest about their feelings, that should lessen misunderstandings and missed chances. Of course most of the time when we're in love, we probably don't know what we should do half the time. We probably don't have to think too much about it, the more we think about it, the harder it becomes to be natural. Love is not about receiving, but about giving. We give our love willingly, not expecting anything in return. We do it because we love the other person, not because we want that person to show their love back. If your heart starts to feel that way, it gets so much easier to love someone unconditionally.
Giving love is such a beautiful thing, sometimes we need an excuse to show our love to someone, because we're not in tune with our hearts, our logical thinking is overwriting our emotional thoughts. If we think about bad stuffs related to love, we should overwrite them yes, but if our hearts think about good stuffs, why do we need to suppress them. If my heart feels like giving the love in my heart a present I would give it, without thinking whether she would do the same or not.
But how to keep a love that is unfated? I still have not the answer to that question. And to make it harder is the question if there is such a thing as fate. Fate is like something that we make, like life, fate is what we make of it. If we believe that bad things should happen before the good things come then it is fate. If we believe that it is fate then it is fate. We are what we believe.
Oh here I go again, typing ironies after ironies. We should not be shy of love, as it is the greatest of them all.
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Happy Chinese New Year everyone!!!
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