Questions

What is the difference between "love" and "like"? This is a question to which people would have different answers. Education and politics are boring. Let's try to read some of Andy's reflections on romance.

There is a saying that goes like "having a relationship with someone is like gardening; if you like the flower, you'll pick it up which kills it; if you love the flower, you'll water it and take care of it". The author is unknown but it isn't the point. This is something that takes root in his ideology. No one knows what love is but if you feel the urge to take care of someone regardless of the feedback, that must be love, isn't it?

Love is a powerful element. Love "correctly", and it will break all the obstacles there is in life. On the contrary, false love is an equally damaging force. What is "false love"? In Buddhism, they say love is unconditional and universal but love takes different forms and we're easily confused. Talking about worldly love or that based on race, yes it should indeed be such. However, what about that for family, romantic partners? Not quite the same. Should you do as your parents say out of their love for you? Should you let your partners do whatever they want because that's what's best for their lives?

The essence of love is inseparable from freedom. They are both THE PURSUIT of our lives and which make meaning although they are unable to be seen nor quantified, only felt. Humans are capable of understanding sophisticated emotions except most of us are not very good at it. As a result, many versions of the same emotion are created and we're literally lost in translation.

Do you meet your soulmate or do you make it? Strange, isn't it, to ask a question as such?

A soulmate is a person with whom one has a feeling of deep or natural affinity. This may involve similarity, love, romance, platonic relationships, comfort, intimacy, sexuality, sexual activity, spirituality, compatibility, and trust

Realistically speaking, most, if not none, of us will not find a soulmate or that this definition isn't true. What we do have which is closest to is someone who may have met some of the criteria and we just accept whatever that's left out. Does this mean that we're stuck with someone who's supposed to be our soulmate but isn't? Do we still call them that? Do we try to change them or just accept everything out of the belief of true love or do you runaway?

Yeah, that's it. There's no answer, suggestion, and whatnot. There's only this, an unsolved puzzle in a simple and yet complicated mind of anyone who thinks about it.

#selfreflect