Commenting on our blog “When You Look For True Love,” Annabelle Salegumba of Mandaluyong asked: Is there really true love?
Yes, Annabelle, THERE CERTAINLY IS.
The proof may not be as many as we would want them to be but we sure will find true love whenever we will look around. Be it among the young and the old, the rich and the poor or the healthy and the sick.
There are still scores of couples in their 60s and 70s who are still together. Golden (50 years) and silver (25 years) wedding anniversaries are still common.
A popular singer-composer who is a super-rich businessman in his own right has been married to the same woman for the last 40 years or so.
I personally know a couple from Dasmarinas Village in Makati who have been married for some 35 years but still travel and enjoy unwinding together.
Visit squatter or informal settler communities anywhere and there will surely be couples who hardly eat three meals a day but are as sweet and happy as other partners would want to be.
And if you watch television often, you most likely have seen blind or other physically handicapped people being faithfully cared for by their spouses through the years.
True love comes in various ways and forms.
Manifestations which will NEVER BE APPLICABLE to all but otherwise prove that anyone can love truly in his or her own way.
If your relationship doesn’t work out, it doesn’t follow that true love does not exist.
When true love comes, nourish it like your body and protect it like your life.
Do whatever has to be done and put in all the necessary ingredients -- trust, understanding, loyalty, the works -- to keep affection burning.
No matter how deep and sincere it is, true love is NOT IMMUNE from death by NATURAL CAUSES like negligence and infidelity.
Remember, true love doesn’t come everyday. It’s up to you, and only you, on how to keep and preserve it.
If you’ll take it for granted, just be sure you can accept and endure the consequences once it exits your life. 30
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