The Look of Love...

What is love??…. Is there really such a thing??… is love a magic??… something that can be achieve???

If I remember it correctly (i am not sure if the last two phrase on my first line is correct), these questions are the "prologue" of a segment in a radio station every midnight during mid to late 1990's.  I was in my senior years in high school when I started listening to this segment.  It's not like the "papa jack" thingy but mostly it is their time to play beautiful, "real" ang very seldom played love song from 80's genre to the present day love songs.  They also will read a love letter or love messages from their listeners and the DJ would give his advices.

Well, so what really is love? … There are a lot of answers with these question, from the biblical point of view, to experiential meaning, meaning from dictionaries and every persons own meaning of love.

For a child, love is the time they get from their busy parents; it is the appreciation or "thumbs up" of a father to his son after he basket that ball in a game; it is the big hug of the mother to her daughter after a well done audition in a play; or it is the sharing of the "kuya" or "ate" with her sandwich to his/her younger sibling.

For a teenager, love is being accepted by peers in a group to have "barkada"; it is being noticed by their crush/es in school or community gathering; it is their first time to experience to be courted by a guy or to court a girl; it is what they call puppy love, young love, sweet love.

For young adults, being inlove is their search for a future partner for life.  It is the time of their life where they mingle with opposite sex to find somebody that will jive their personality and what they want to be in the future.  Being inlove is one of their goals to achieve (of course aside from professional growth). Being inlove and learning how to stay in love is the development in progress.  Until they find the one, and settle to be as one…

For years, decades and even centuries, people search for love.  Others succeeded, some failed…. some are still in search.  I believe that The One Above, had made a person specifically for another one but the best thing I learned about love is… One should  love their self first, before they love other, because you cannot give, what you do not have…. Let us all spread LOVE!