 Have you guys heard somebody go like...
“I will never Love gain”
or say something like “Don’t tell me Love, Love doesn’t exist”, “I will never give my heart away again” and so on?
Well, I stumbled upon this quote on one of my internet trips and it reminded me of many who have (because of some reason in the past) given up on Love. I personally have a colleague who once stated that ‘Love doesn’t exist’.
Many of us, are like her, we’ve been hurt here and there. Our experiences now shape our opinions. The guy you gave your heart back then? Well, his photo is out of the album – stuff happened. You now live with conclusions “All men are bad”.
That pretty girl with whom everything looked promising. “Just don’t open old wounds” “All women are lairs” you conclude – things got so sour. Something we expected to turn out right went crumbling. This quote by Irish Novelist C.S Lewis reminded me of this constant truth - Love is a risk.
Here, let me allow you read it for yourself…
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully around your hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell – CS Lewis, The four loves .”
See, I never entered C.S Lewis’s house, but I suspect this fellow must have underlined 1 Corinthians 13 in his Bible as his favorite chapter. He really knew what Love is. If I had lived in the 19th Century, I would have given C.S Lewis a high five am telling you.
May we never give up on Love! | |
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