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Love Today, A Misconception?


As Tolstoy said, ''There are as many kinds of love as there are hearts''.

Since the genesis of the world, from the making of green and every moving thing on the surface of the earth, love has been there. Everything natural we see is love’s product. The subject has been largely misconstrued with infatuation, lust, idolization, or obsession.

There is no age to stop infatuating about someone. Infatuations sometimes bamboozle people into thinking that they are in love. Infatuation is our temporary liking and attraction towards someone whom we think are in love with, and this makes us falsely proclaim that indeed we are in love.

A lot of relationships have failed to stand the test of time due to both party's inability to decipher how they feel, what they feel and why they feel what they feel. As we grow with time, we begin to have affection toward each other be it heterosexual or homosexual. This affection takes more serious and mature form with time.

In today’s society, love is largely confused with money and sex. We believe that the only way to prove our love for someone is to engage in conjugal relations and afterwards shower each other with gifts to prove our love for each other.

Love has a language that only true lovers understand. Love happens in the most unplanned way with the most unplanned person. The best kind of relationship begins unexpectedly; when you get that astonished feeling and everything happens so suddenly. That’s why you don’t look for love, it comes to you at just the right time--the time you never thought it would happen.

One of the most beautiful and weirdest things that happens is to fall in love with a person you didn’t even notice at the first time you met. Purest form of love is passionless, platonic and unconditional.

Feelings are mere outbursts of passion flaming in us. Oftentimes, we are driven by circumstances to think on just the lines of outer beauty, and not the inner beauty of a person.

We fall in love within the shortest possible time we spend with someone whom we have not yet acquainted ourselves with. Our definition of love causes us to be blindsided by having the illusion that we already know someone we just met a couple of days ago.

Love stories portray an organic, pure, clear, unmistakable and undeniable language that melts our hearts of stone when we hear them. Like Cinderella and Prince Charming, we can see that nothing can separate true love; and that love has an anchor that holds in the face of life’s vicissitudes.

It is about time that we distilled our wisdom and understanding onto the superficial meaning we associate with love and be imbued with the language of love that mother nature teaches us every day.

In my view, we can truly fall in love with a person whom we have spent considerable amount of time with--whom we have known well in terms of behaviour, character and attitude, and in different circumstances--only then can we can judge the person completely and see if we are really compatible with the person.

--Isaac Aboagye Asiedu

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