We can write about love every day of our lives. In reality, there shouldn’t be a single date on the calendar to celebrate it, because it exists every day. When we give our child our first kiss to wake them up in the morning or when we tell our partner we love them.
It’s worth reflecting on love. Many people say that love is blind when they meet a partner and no one understands why they love each other so much. Regarding this, the famous English writer William Shakespeare said: “Love, being blind, blinds lovers from the amusing nonsense that is committed.”
In times of neoliberal globalization, impossible loves do exist, even though the days of Romeo and Juliet are long gone, but we all remember the love between Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Al Fayed, who died in a traffic accident on August 31st, 1997, in Paris, without receiving the approval of the British Crown, which frowned upon the mother of Princes William and Harry having a stepfather of the Egyptian stature, simply because of the millionaire’s African descent. Which reminds me of Mother Teresa of Calcutta’s famous phrase: “Love, to be true, must cost us.”
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliére, speaking about this topic, quite rightly said: “A passionate lover loves even the defects of the person he loves.” While Nervo Amado jokingly expressed: “If they don’t love you the way you want to be loved? What does it matter if they love you?
The relationship between love and desire must be separated if we follow the thinking of José Ortega y Gasset when he argued: “Desire dies automatically when it is achieved: it perishes when it is satisfied. Love, on the other hand, is eternally unsatisfied.”
Many say that love is marked by fire and madness, and that without these two aspects, there is no such thing as love for a day. Perhaps for this reason, Giovanni Papini reasoned: “Love is like fire; if it is not communicated, it goes out. On the other hand, a Latin proverb says: ‘It is madness to love, unless one loves madly.'”
Another, like the prominent Spanish writer Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, explained: “Sighs are air and go to the air. Tears are water and go to the sea. Tell me, woman, when love is forgotten: do you know where it goes?
And it is that love sometimes becomes mischievous, and like a playful baby, makes unexpected moves. Something reflected in Jean de la Fontaine’s meditation when he wrote: “No one has dominion over love, but love dominates all things.”
It is unfortunate to meet people who fear love due to the fear of failure. To them, I say this thought from Stendhal: “The man who has not loved passionately ignores the most beautiful half of his life.” Although for José Ortega y Gasset: “The men most capable of thinking about love are those who have lived the least; and those who have lived it are usually incapable of meditating on it.”
For the important writer Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra, “there can be love without jealousy, but not without fear.” However, for the physicist and Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein, “At first, all thoughts belong to love. Afterward, all love belongs to thoughts.”
The love between a man and a woman should be carried out in times of triumph as well as difficulties. Everything should be shared. A success for her is also his. A problem for the husband is also his. Regarding this important aspect, the French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery summed up: “To love is not to look at each other; it is to look together in the same direction.”
It is worth summarizing what the Hindu poet and thinker Rabindranath Tagore quoted: “Love is the ultimate meaning of everything that surrounds us. It is not a simple feeling; it is the truth, it is the joy that is at the origin of all creation.”
Translated by Aliani Rojas Fernandez
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