Love Isn’t Everything. - False

"Love is not Love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;”

- An Excerpt From Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

Mention the word “Love” and it sets off Sparks everywhere. Heads bow gently, the heart drops its pride, eyes close and arms open a little. Love is the fire everyone Loves to get burnt with. Love is the quivering spring in every winter’s heart.

You don’t get it when you need it most but you often end up paying heavily for it. Experience teaches that Love is the most burning and perishable of all human passions. But certainly it is also the most human of all feelings with all the limitations and exaltations the word evokes. In Love, even the tiniest things count and nothing if forgotten and forgiven.

There is no better exercise to the heart than reaching down and reaching out for someone. But Love too has its own obstacles, ‘Self-Love’ causing a gamut of problems, our own ego and our self-regard. Love is just a choice. Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in. LOVE has always been about intention and action. That is why it is said that the opposite of Love is not hate but indifference, our apathy to act, our coldness in commitment. Those who do not choose to act in Love, who denies Love to others out of fear or loss, it is their lives which are barren and empty. Only they are the losers.

The strings of Love are like the strings of violin. Once you have learned how to play, then you must play with your heart. It then requires no map or chart. Love is not what you live for. Love is what makes it a little easier.

Love isn’t everything is as true as humans not having a heart. Love exists where there is Heart. So people go get some Love, it is not that difficult, Love only needs an Open Heart!