TRUE LOVE
Love is a matter of the heart.It is mostly concerned with our
feelings and emotions. It attracts us spontaneously towards somebody. Its
synonyms are : life- long affection, fondness, care, concern, attachment,
regard, warmth, intimacy, devotion, adoration, passion, yearning, etc.
In his sonnet No, CXVI , English poet
and dramatist William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
says : Love is not love/Which alters when it alteration finds,/or bends with
the remover to remove. According to him: Love is not Time’s fool, though rosy
lips and cheeks/Within its his bending sickle’s compass come./Love alters not with
his brief hours and weeks, /But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
The English author Maria Jane Jewsbury
(1800-1833) says : Love is the purification of the heart; it strengthens and
ennobles the character, gives a higher motive and a nobler aim to every action
of life, and makes both man and woman strong, noble , and courageous; and the
power to love truly and devotedly is the noblest gift with which a human being
can be endowed; but it is a sacred fire that must not be burned to idols.
Personally, I would like to say that
a man or woman whom we truly love is a
religion.
To conclude, let me say that true
love is a great healer. No medicine can match its divine vitality. If you have
a true lover in the shape of a friend or relative or anybody else you don’t need any physician to diagnose your illness and
prescribe a medicine.
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G.R.Kanwal
17th June 2024
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