LOVE IS TOGETHERNESS

 

LOVE IS TOGETHERNESS

Love is a necessity of life. No one can survive in this world without a loved one. Loneliness is unhappiness. Companionship is joy. It is caring and sharing.  

A child needs the mother’s love and a grownup the love of another grownup. There is no one-sided love and there is no love without togetherness. Lovers must meet, must be close to each other, must look into each other’s eyes, must talk, must walk together, must celebrate the happy and not so happy events of life co-operatively.

Lovers are living beings, not statues. They are to be touched and embraced, grasped and released. They are not temporary guests but everlasting soul mates. To be separated from  loved ones is like a separation from existence.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) said in one of his sonnets: Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

And Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) said in his poem Dover Beach: Ah, love let us be true to one another! For the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain.

Finally, this romantic view of the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82) : There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love --- the first fluttering of its silken wings – the first rising sound and breath of that wind which is so soon to sweep through the soul, to purify or to destroy.

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G.R.Kanwal

23 March 2025