Friday, September 03, 2004
The Love Package
I met this friend of mine the other day. I hadn’t seen him for many years. He seemed troubled and did not appear to be too happy. A few minutes into the conversation, he told me that he was in a dilemma. He had trouble with his girlfriend. Well, he has been dating this girl for the last 10 years and he was unable to bring himself to propose marriage. Their relationship appeared to be on and off basis. This was the only girl he had dated during the past 10 years. Apart from feeling sorry for his situation, I managed to give him some words of encouragement. I encouraged him to be patient and the same time, to be persistent in pursuing his love. Hopefully the Goddess of Love might pay him some attention.
There are cases of love at first sight. There are cases of blind love and there are cases of many unconditioned love. To me those are the exceptions. In today’s society, and in most cases, love comes as a package, a Love Package. In this package, you will find items like wealth, health, power, appearance, social standing, education status, mannerism, behaviour, attitude, caring, sharing and many other items. Some look for certain items in this package while other looked for other items. The choice is very individual and personal. Needless to say, people who have more of these items and with better quality item stand a better chance to win the love package. However, those with lesser item or lower quality items are not necessary the losers. They may need to pay more effort to gather more of these items and improve the qualities of the existing items, which they have. Above all, love needs to be cultivated and love need to be natured. The cultivation of love requires effort, time, patient and the exhibition of all the fine qualities of human being.
There are cases of love at first sight. There are cases of blind love and there are cases of many unconditioned love. To me those are the exceptions. In today’s society, and in most cases, love comes as a package, a Love Package. In this package, you will find items like wealth, health, power, appearance, social standing, education status, mannerism, behaviour, attitude, caring, sharing and many other items. Some look for certain items in this package while other looked for other items. The choice is very individual and personal. Needless to say, people who have more of these items and with better quality item stand a better chance to win the love package. However, those with lesser item or lower quality items are not necessary the losers. They may need to pay more effort to gather more of these items and improve the qualities of the existing items, which they have. Above all, love needs to be cultivated and love need to be natured. The cultivation of love requires effort, time, patient and the exhibition of all the fine qualities of human being.
