I’m seeing all bloody red all around me. Am I having a heart attack? Or, just instance of “hearts attack”? Hahaha. Forgive my cheesiness, this is embarrassing already! Valentine’s Day will be arriving soon and I’m seeing multitudes of red, heart-shaped cut-outs in various sizes posted on windows and walls or hanging on tree branches and ceilings almost everywhere I go. Annoying even to see once again that cute little boy who seem to have no intention other than to annihilate everyone within eyesight with his deadly bow and arrow! A primitive weapon of ancient warfare; so effective and always a frequent choice by pure-hearted barbarians due to its capacity to torture an opponent by having to hit your opponent at least 5-10 times in the body to make sure he’s dead; at least 2 if you’re aiming for the eyes! To think, how a cute little fellow, barely pass infancy, be allowed to carry such a deadly weapon! That is insanely crazy ultra ironic, isn’t it? (Forgive yet again the overlapping superlatives) Yes! And so is love.
Crazier even is this quote I chanced to read earlier today:
“One seeks to make the loved one entirely HAPPY, or, if that cannot be, entirely WRETCHED” – Jean de la Bruyere
Now, that is one of the wittiest ways of putting the ambivalence of the mysterious emotion called love. When you have found your true love in your partner, you will be the happiest person in the world, no doubt. But like every relationship on earth, there will be times that you want to detach your partner’s head from their body simply because you really want to do it. But that is how love works; hence the reason why it is mysterious. When you are in love sometimes you are inspired to do things that conflict with rationality. Going all the way to another city or country even, to surprise your loved one, even if money, distance and other things stand in the way, or giving up a high-paid white-collar job to just be able to spend more time to cuddle with your partner, these things may not be feasible in many ways economically or otherwise. But love is not a friend of reason. It is precisely this irrationality that makes love the most mysterious emotion and marvelous experience. At the end of the day it will get to you – you want to put a smile on her face with a trinket you thought will look nice on her, or you bought home his favorite board game and some beers just to see the look on his face. So here’s my advice, if you wanna go crazy, go crazy in love! Now, just in case you don’t yet have any subject to express your love to, go crazy in love still, with yourself!
Happy Heart’s Month! I love Cupid; one day I got tired avoiding his barrages of arrows and eventually was hit (big time), and I’m crazy ever since!
How about you? Are you still running from Mr. Cutie Cupid? Tell you, his darn persistence is unequaled, he’ll get to you sooner or later. If I were you, better use your energy somewhere else worthwhile than running away from him! 😉
If ever he’s not minding you at all, disarm him of his weapon and shoot him with it instead!
Hahaha! An awesome definition of ‘being in love’ and a hilarious take on Cupid! This reminds me of Shakespear’s words ‘ Love is blind and lovers cannot see.’ Love makes us do bizarre things that we otherwise deemed silly as we go the few extra miles to keep it up or to simply see a smile. Love is absolutely one emotion that keeps the world going around! Good one, Andrei!
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Romantic love is truly devoid of sanity and endowed with disability (blindness)! Hahaha, to the point of even using a representation of an infant (totally impaired with soundness of judgment) to indiscriminately shoot arrows at anybody and wreak havoc of emotions. Yet, despite it all – Love, in the words of any romantic, is all sweet, cute and cuddly, haha.
Love (not money) makes the world go round!
Thank you, Pranitha! May you be filled with the blessings of love.
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Thank you for a good laugh, Andrie, and wish you the same!
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❤️😄
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Particularly loved the quote…
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Yes. The quote absolutely nailed it! It speaks true to most people in a relationship 🙂 Funny yet true 🙂
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This blog is an interesting place to visit. Enjoying your posts… enjoying them thoroughly…
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Thank you! Glad to have met your expectations! 🙂
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Sir, I would be very glad, if you visit my blog too… and comment about some of my poems…hopefully you will…
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Of course! Will do, surely!
Thank you for taking the time to read my posts. Hope that somehow you’re able to learn something from them and that they may turn out to be helpful to you as well.
As a writer myself, it always delights me to receive compliments from a fellow writer. It feels like I’ve truly fulfilled my purpose in writing.
WP is full of extremely-gifted writers/bloggers as well as those who are really promising ones. All I can say is that we have so much to learn from each other. Cheers to all of us who writes/blogs! 🙂
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Well, sir I have learned more than something, from your blogs. And I’ll surely keep following your blog in the future is well. And indeed, writing is a God-given skill. I love writing too, just like you…..
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Happy to know that! Thankful as well to be acquainted with you here thru your blog. Judging from your avatar “Born to Inspire” I’m looking forward to reading your works and be inspired by them as well 😉
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Very thankful to you….
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Same here 🙂
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Hi! How are you? I follow your blog because it is very interesting and inspiring. I really love it. How’s your day going? I hope we could be friends. I can’t wait to read your upcoming blog post. Have a good day ahead!
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Hi Marie! I’m good. And you?
Thank you for dropping by. It warms my heart to know that you find my blog interesting. Glad to have met your expectations 🙂
Can we be friends? Of course, absolutely! It’s my pleasure to be friends with you. I had a quick peek at your blog and it looked gorgeous! Sadly, I don’t have much time to go over your post as of the moment. I’m tied up with something else I need to finish. But I’ll be back to your site, I promise.
Thank you for considering my blog with such high regard. I’m humbled as much as I’m honored. Catch you later. Have a nice day too!
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Thank you so much. Have a wonderful day!
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love is not a friend of reason- omg so true! you hit the hammer on the nail ! 🙂
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Did I??! That’s an achievement. Carpentry was never my thing! Haha
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Haha 😂
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🙂
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I love that quote- it’s sooo insanely true! Lol! 🙂
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Thank you, Nina! Haha, it speaks of truth! 😆
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🙂
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