Love and the Mantra

Love and the Mantra



Sex. Relationships. Love.

Are these the human mental equivalent of blood, oxygen and water?

Human life are constantly and unavoidably surrounded by the Three Critical Elements above.
Boy was born, boy grew up, boy met girl, boy married girl.
Are these really the fulfilling path of people's life?

A long, long time ago an innocent girl was boasting about how marvellous love is, and how she could not imagine how cold, ignorant, and lifeless life would be without the existence of Love.

Then someone she knew said:
"but imagine how stable life would be without love".

Unable to defend herself, she kept quiet.

Some long, bumpy and curvy road later the words popped out of her head like a jumping hot popcorn. The world suddenly shifts. She never looked at life the same again. Suddenly everything makes sense. The sudden break up, the persistent nightmares, the undeserved joy that she always knew was too good to be true. Maybe the saying is true, and it has carved a powerful mantra in her heart. Your brain starts to think the moment you were born, and stops the second you fall in love.

In the early journey of my twenty-something-ness, I begin to wonder:
do I really want love?

An old, dear friend of mine once talked about his life.
"Life's good. No girls, no distraction."
And just like that, he rest his case.

Don't get me wrong, this doesn't mean that I loathe the old-time classic tale of Romeo and Juliet, or Cinderella and her prince charming who stormed outside his castle with his majestic white suit to find one of many glass shoes, or, for a closer reference, our newly wed neighbour, who seemingly happy to spend each weekend gardening their empty backyard. After some conquests which involved endurance, patience (which I have found very challenging), and understanding, I have come to a conclusion:

Life is stable without love.

And just like that, I rest my case

JK