all we need is love...

i know, it's pretty late in the month to post something valentine-y, but all it took was a pre-dinner with some UPS people to get me in the mood to blab about the stuff that makes the world go round.

there, seated amongst cebu business park's giant commercial edifices, in front a miniature lagoon (which we feel is home to the real loch ness monster), the group decided to direct its collective attention to the one person who is obviously too in love for comfort : april (poor soul). you see april recently found herself passionately smitten by another passionate individual, whom we shall not name for fear of further discomfort. later that afternoon, while the group was on its way to ayala, we saw the current object of april's hormonal desires. suddenly, april maneuvered her sturdy physique some 50 meters away from her crush in a span of seconds. this amazing feat of human prowess was performed in front of our group, who was just as bewildered at april's sudden action as all the other people seated in a nearby tambayan were. when april's beau was safely out of anybody's field of vision, april promptly returned to us with a biko in her hand. (the biko she bought as a result of the sudden upsurge of adrenaline, which really could cause hunger.)

what is this thing that would drive perfectly normal people into uncontrollable fits of unpredictable actions? what is this? as far as april, and all other people who has seen it close and looked it in the eyes, 'it' could only be love.

jason said that real love will last a lifetime. that since man is created in the image of God, it is inherent in him (or her) to emulate the true nature of God. and just as God loves humanity, we must pick one person to love for the rest of our lives. anut prays for the man God has set for her. she also prays that the man not think like gian, who thinks differently about the whole love business. the rest of the group (predominantly psychology students, interestingly enough) all had their own little ideas. as we delved more into the very meaning and existence of love, kids ran around us, fishes swam in the lagoon, rats scurry about in the garden, stars went out to listen.

i feel that true love doesn't have to last forever. that sometimes it ends, sometimes it ends too soon. when it does end, wait for the next one to begin. and if indeed love comes again, you don't have to make sure it's going to last forever, just make sure that it's true.

do not go on dismissing all previous loves as 'infatuation' or simple mindlessness (except when they really were!). those, for all you know, were true. they just end, and just as love comes suddenly (by fate, not by choice!), it can go.

but love, when one knows it well, is never untrue.