If it's any comfort, this whole business about love and loving puts everyone in equal footing so to speak.
It plagues both rich and poor, genius and inane, excellent and mediocre. Even the gods and demi-gods have not been spared, what more with us mortals.
Because being IN LOVE and LOVING, is a conundrum, an enigma - we think we got it, but we really don't.
While I am no expert nor claim to be one on this matter, I thought musing about this often convoluted concept can help make sense or make fun of the love we currently have or don't have.
To BE IN LOVE defies all logic. One cannot explain the adrenaline rush of being engulfed in the dizzying vortex of giddiness. Why does the world suddenly become rainbow-colored, fragrant, and delicious?!
Is this your kind of love? GESUNDHEIT! Have a blast while it lasts!
For others, being in love means the wanton abandon of morals and sanity, sometimes committing emotional harakiri in the hopes of creating an everlasting love - only to find out that you are all alone in this love.
Yet why does one continue to get swallowed in this quicksand of emotions?
Are you a masochist...obsessed with pain that you keep seeking it? Perhaps your head in the clouds make you believe that this person will... change for you...will leave his wife for you...will marry you one day... will love you?!
Is this your kind of love? GESUNDHEIT! Take the red pill because the matrix is not real!
And when everything is said and done, I dedicate this song to you.
Tuyo Na'ng Damdamin APO Hiking Society
MINSAN KAHIT NA PILITIN MONG UMINIT ANG DAMDAMIN
DI SIYA SUSUNOD, AT DI MAGLALAMBING
MINSAN DI MO NA MAPIGIL MAPANSIN
NA TALAGANG WALA NANG NAIIWAN NA PAGMAMAHAL
REFRAIN:
AT KAHIT NA ANONG GAWIN
DI MO NA MAPILIT AT MADAYA
AMININ SA SARILI MO
NA WALA KA NG MABUBUGA
PARANG ‘SANG KANDILA NA NAGDADALA
NG ILAW AT LIWANAG
NAUUBOS RIN SA MAGDAMAG
(INSTRUMENTAL)
DI NA MADAIG O MABALIK ANG DATING MATAMIS NA KAHAPON
PILITIN MA’Y TUYO NA’NG DAMDAMIN
To LOVE on the other hand summons the conscious precepts of the mind. It means making a decision, making a stand, making a choice for someone other than yourself or sometimes in spite of yourself.
Whether you love someone for one reason or many, deservedly or undeservedly, right or wrong, you choose to love this person anyway.
Why? Because you know there is no perfect love but it is in choosing to love the imperfections that bring out the best in you and make you realize that merely saying the words "I love you" is not enough.
More than the words, love should be a demonstration, a declaration, a proud expression of your earnest devotion towards someone.
It means matching the words with palpable engagements toward making your significant other feel loved.
Title: Pag-ibig Artist: Apo Hiking Society
No’ng tangan ng nanay ang munting mong mga kamay
Ika’y tuwang-tuwa, panatag ang loob
Sa damdaming ika’y mahal
No’ng nakilala mo ang una mong sinta
Umapaw ang saya at siya’y ibang-iba
Sinasamsam ang bawat gunita
CHORUS 1
Hindi mo malimutan kung kailan nagsimulang
Matuto kung papa’no magmahal
At ‘di mo malimutan kung kailan mo natikman
Ang una mong halik, yakap na napakahigpit
Pag-ibig na tunay hanggang langit
No’ng tayo’y nagkakilala nang hindi sinasadya
Ikaw lang ang napansin, nahuli sa isang tingin
At sa pagbati mong napakalambing
CHORUS 2
Hindi ko malimutan kung kailan nagsimulang
Matutong ikaw lang ang mahalin
At ‘di ko malimutan kung kailan ko natikman
Ang tamis ng ‘yong halik, yakap na napakahigpit
Pag-ibig mong tunay hanggang langit
‘Di ko malimutan kung kailan ko natikman
Ang tamis ng iyong halik, yakap na napakahigpit
Pag-ibig mong tunay hanggang langit
Is this your kind of love? awww, GESUNDHEIT!
Happy Valentine's Day everyone!
