As the title states, does anyone really know what true love is? Many times I have come across the "love" word being use in the slightest context. "I love this", "I love that" but what does it really mean? Heavy usage of the word love does take credibility away from it to the extent that its almost equivalent to "sorry". We apologize ever so frequent over every little thing that saying "sorry" is more of a reaction rather than an action. I'm not shooting my mouth off here because to me, 50% of the time when I apologize, I actually do not think twice about what responsibilities it brings. Its more for getting me off the hook at that instance. Likewise "love" seems more of a convenient expression in word for anything likable. How discouraging that thought is.
I remembered back in secondary school I sat for a literature exam and 1 particular question stumped me. It seemed like an open ended question, meaning any answer is acceptable as long as you are able to support your answer with examples and reasoning. This was highly uncommon especially for a secondary school standard exam. For those of you who used Catherine Lim's "Singapore Short Stories" as your school's literature syllabus, you will remember a story about 4 people, A couple and the guy's parents. The story takes us through the ups and downs of the couple's relationship but ends up a lost cause because the girl could not settle for a life living with her in-laws because the father was mentally ill and had only the wife to take care of him. The question asked, which character in that story displays true love? My conception of love back then was romantic love so I answer to my best ability had supported my claim that the guy displayed true love because he gave everything to the girl and he got dumped because of her inability to live with his parents and yet he did not make things difficult for her during the breakup. In my opinion I thought he was very self-sacrificing. WRONG! I got zero marks for that question and the right answer would be the guy's mother. The it this all too familiar phrase struck me: "In sickness and in health, do you take xxx to be your lawfully wedded xxx? Do you promise to love and cherish xxx till death to you part?" I believe nothing explains true love better. The mother character nursed and took care of her husband although the disease wrecked his mind and soul and left him a broken man who could not take care of himself.
I found this video on Youtube that perfectly represents true love and the promise made to love and cherish till the end. It really tugs at the heart strings so "tearjerker" alert for you weak at heart girls. It almost moved me to tears...almost but I've been called heartless before...eecks! So enjoy...just pretend its not an advert.
On a brighter note, I was fortunate to be invited to Jamie's 25th B'day party at Boiler Room on Saturday. It was fun and the gay stand-up comic was f-ing hilarious! Got everyone in stitches! Expect for the fact that I had a personal encounter with the gay stand-up comic everything that night was a blast and it was great to be reunited with the people from the past. Glad everyone is doing well and having fun together! Nursing this everlasting cold...so irritating to be sick when there is a party to attend and studying for the exams...hope LEMSIP MAX is good!
2L people - 1997 ~ 2008 (11 years)
B'day girl and I looking in opposite directions!
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