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Love is Not a Feeling. Love is an Act.
I was recently in a room full of young people who unanimously agreed that love is not a good reason to get married. I recall a particular young lady actually saying, I will never get married for love. The statement sounded offensive to the romantic in me. I could not think of a better reason to get married if not for love. Marriage just simply won’t be worth it. I will never understand those who choose a loveless marriage, but then again, I am a romantic and a bit of an idealist when it comes to my views on marriage. However, I can understand where these young folks were coming…
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“Differences in Personality” : A New Divorce Lingo?
I am a huge Korean Drama fan. They have been my companion since teenage-hood, helping to keep boredom at bay and filling my heads with images of what the bond between a man and woman should look like in reality, but is often not. However, I believe if the human mind is so good as to come up with such blissful onscreen romance, then surely, we are indeed capable of having such successful relationships in real life. The question then is why do we fail to? Why is our world not full of real love stories that seem too good to be true? One of my favorite K drama…
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Dear Future Husband: You Just Haven’t Met Me Yet
Dear Future Husband, I once read in a book that the people we meet at the wrong time are actually the wrong people and the right people are timeless. Looking back on all the people I have met, I realized I just haven’t met you yet. But I am so looking forward to the day when we’ll meet. I wonder if ours will be an instant attraction or a love at first sight as they call it. There are so many questions I want to ask you. Do you believe in fate? Do you believe if two people are destined for each other they will be together come what may?…
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The Story of My Love and I
He said he loved me, and my heart beat hard and fast in my chest. I said I loved him too, not sure exactly what I meant by those words. But if my heart beat would accelerate at a lightning speed and my entire body flush as though infused with fragrance from a thousand roses, then surely, I must really love him. That was my first love, naïve, young and wide-eyed. it bloomed like summer blooms and vanished with the last gasp of summer. I thought it will last forever. Surely when two people say they love each other that meant they will be together forever, right? The answer is…
