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What Do You Know About Love?

Posted on March 21, 2010 06:00 pm by Veronica
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“Sam,” I started. “What do you know about love?”

“Is this a trick question?” he asked.

“No,” I said as I sipped my wine. “I just want to know.”

I’ve been asking my friends this question for the past few days now, since I finished reading Paulo Coelho’s Eleven Minutes. In the book, the author wrote that the best kind of love is the one that doesn’t ask for anything in return. Is that even possible? I thought. Is it really possible in this world to give someone your undying devotion and unrivaled love without asking for the same or even a third of what you offered? Do people like that even exist? I read that this thinking is ideal and surreal, but in reality, it won’t work because sooner or later, we would always be asking for a piece of ourselves back.

So I asked my friends, and here's what some of them answered:

Charlie: “Love is hard to find, and once found, is even harder to keep. It might slip away from you.”

Chi: “It's something that can make or break you.”

Aki: “True love waits.”

Franco: “Love comes from three places—head, heart, and hormones. 3Hs. So that’s why love also makes people happy and horny. It tells us why people get hurt and why people hope. It can make us experience heaven and endure hell, and it can bring us home.”

Jai: “Love is a whole lot of sex…” I stopped there.


“So, what do you think?” I asked Sam again.

“Well, love finds the person,” he answered. “Not otherwise. How about you? What’s your view on love?"

I could have said a lot of things. I could have thrown famous quotes from authors and movies and narrate my own experiences, but in the end, I wouldn’t be able to answer the question. So when Sam asked me, I simply told him what I was feeling at that moment.

“I think love is supposed to be simple,” I started. “People just make it complicated. Whenever I think of having a boyfriend, I dream of having someone I can afford to be weak to, because you know naman how strong my personality can be.”

“You know how I zigzag through snide comments and backstabbing, right?” I continued. “It gets tiring, that at the end of the day, I want someone who’s strong enough for both of us, so that I can be weak even for just a while, put down my armor and just let go.

“I want someone who won’t change, from the time he met me till the time we die—that he’d always care. I want someone consistent. I want someone who’ll show me that love doesn’t always mean waiting in vain. I want someone witty because I want us to laugh all the time.”

“You really are the romantic type,” Sam said as pulled me closer and messed my hair up.

Just then, I realized that I already met that kind of person, the one I just described. And that person was sipping wine beside me. But somehow, it just didn’t add up because he was my friend, and nothing else.

So I’ve decided that this was the universe’s way of telling me that it wasn’t the right time for me to be with someone. And just like what Sam said, I’d meet that someone someday and I’ll be so happy I wouldn’t remember all the hurt I’ve been through lately. Because love finds the person, not otherwise.
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