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everytime i go to 15 spring st. i always come across this love verse that hits me everytime i read it… it made sense, it’s true, it’s beautiful… it described love… and i cant think of anything that best describes love other than that love verse… it came from the bible… so there’s no questioning it’s "realness"

but here’s the thing, everyone has their own definition/interpretation of love, one’s definition of love depend on several factors… how do people define love when they’re in a happy relationship? in a bad relationship? how do they define love when they’re just looking for love? or when they’re waiting for love? or when they’re tired waiting for love? how do they define love whe they’re fighting for their loved one, meaning fighting for their relationship to work, fighting for it to become better… i’ll tell you how i define it…but first let’s isolate what are we talking about, im not talking about brotherly love, or parental love, or the love of the church for the people, God’s love, im talking about "partners" love, the whole boyfriend-girlfriend kind of love, the love where we’re all interested to have, to find, to hold on to, and to keep…

so, that’s specific enough…

how i define it may be different from yours, we all have our own interpretations…

love is patience, being able to understand your loved one and have patience for her/him. being patient meaning you won’t be easily offended at times when ur loved one pisses you off, like when he forget’s to call, or when she doesnt address you as her boyfriend in front of her friends (she’s shy or she’s not ready for that yet), or when she goes to a party where he doesnt want her to go, being patient and not getting mad easily for these things… shallows things…

love is acceptance… love is accepting ur loved one for who she/he is… PERIOD. you love her as a whole, not just her eyes, her nose, hair… if you love a person you accept all the good and the bad that comes with it, meaning you accept that person’s intelligence, looks, behavior, but also accept that she’s small, or his breath stinks, or his armpit are horrible or when she has halitosis(but u have to tell her) and you’re too embarassed to tell her, you accept everything… being able to accept the fact that she laughs loud, or he snores and he keeps waking you up at night… everything, you accept her flat nose as she accepts your moon face… and all of these you acccept without talking behind his/her back… meaning when he’s not around, she’s not gonna comment on whatever it is you girls comment on when your boyfriend’s not around… same goes to us when your not around… when girls does it, guys do too… not all of them though and not as often, it’s too girly…

love never gloats. never boast. never keeps count of wrongs. if one is offended and when forgiven, they forget… they dont go talking about it again when things get out of hand. coz it usually happens. "ilang beses mo nang inulit yan""ilang beses ka nang nagsinungaling sakin" (if you love the person you wouldnt lie to her in the first place). " and so on and so forth… you’re not supposed to keep count of wrongs… you dont gloat, you dont boast… when it’s done and forgiven…you forget… and when time comes that it happens again, you’ll have patience, when it happens again, and again, and again, dude you got problems…

love is not a matter of who pays for what… coz i’ve heard it all before, time and time again… who pays for movies, for the restaurant, for cab, for phone bills, sometimes someone owes someone too, its not a matter of who always gives… i mean, come on… it doesnt follow that guys ALWAYS have to pay too,we’re not kids anymore, we’re grown-ups… we’d rather think of the pleasant time we shared with each other than who always pay for what when we go out… for me, its just money, i mean wouldnt you pay for what it costs to make your partner happy? money cannot be exchanged with for the time you’re together, cannot be exchanged for the smile she gets when you give her something… simple as that… money is nothing compared to what your sharing with each other… doesnt matter who pays for what… if you love that person you wouldnt want him to pay for everything anyway…

love is honesty… being honest to your loved one is one of the most important things in a relationship. hands down important. so important that if you lie you’ll end up ruining the relationship. honesty is the simpliest thing to do. and tell you what it’s the easiest thing to do. you just say the truth and nothing will go wrong. no white lies. no cover-ups. nothin. coz saying the truth all the time meaning you’re able to trust.

love is trust. trust meaning you’ll just say "im going out with friends" or "im havin a girl’s night out" and if trust is there, there’s no worrying where he is, who is she with, when will she come back. there’s no worrying about those. trust. trust and honesty kinda goes hand in hand. but there’s a catch, if you say you’re goin out with friends you better be goin out with just friends or else you would have lied. simple for some, hard for hustlers.

love is hard-work. it’s about being able to harmonize yourself with your girl’s or your guy’s life, his/her friends, classmates, co-workers, pets and most importantly parents. oh yes the parents. it’s the parents that’ll make your heart pound like crazy and your life miserable at first… it’s about coming to their place say every week, or every sunday for church, or every saturday night dinner, or whatever it is that needs your presence when its needed. you need to do it coz you wanna be part of their family and bad as you wanna be with her/him. makes sense? one more thing, you being accepted by the parents… that’s something else,i cant even put it in words how it feels… it’s somethin else… imagine your girl’s mom and dad likes you… hmmmm… sweet… i dont know how will you do it but you have to do it, harmonize yourslef to them.

love inspires. it can make you do things you never had any idea you can do. i never thought i can be so patient with someone in my entire life. when you’re in love you can do almost anythin. you’ll be elated, happy, in a good mood, INSPIRED. sounds cheesy but when your there you’ll know what im talkin about. you’ll feel it only when you’re really in love and into it. no flings. no one night stands. not just for booty call. not just summer love. the real thing.

remember about the thing i said about accepting the good and the bad the goes with it? love get’s bad too…

love is unfair. sometimes it’s always somebody who has to give way for the other. one person has to give way in order for the other to be happy. or someone always have suck it up and swallow it just to make things go back to what it used to be. sometimes it’s always you who always forgive, sometimes it’s always you who has to understand the other. "this game is important to me, i can’t come tonight" "i have team pratice tomorrow" and so on and so forth… excuses… it sucks when it’s you who always have to forgive. when will it stop?

but love perseveres, it trusts remember? it has patience, that is what’s good about love. it forgives, not easy to take offense, it perseveres, it makes you do even the hardest things to do including to forgive, if u love a person it’s easy to forgive her/him, it’s beautiful until it becomes too much.

yes, love perseveres, it finds a way through anything to make your realtionship all right again. until it get’s tired. yes it gets tired. and when it gets tired at some point in time it dies, when it dies, it’s gone… and it’s so hard to put it back all together again, it’s hard to bring it back the way it used to be. and when you realize it’s gone it’s too late. it’s hard to put it back. when this happens (breaking up), it’s the hardest thing to do, i mean part of who you are is gone, all those effort to drive her to school, pick her up after work, all the tears, all the time, all the hard work you put on for her/his family….gone. part of you gone. it’s gonna feel like part of you dies. but it’s also important. yes, breaking up is important. coz you realize it’s not worth it anymore. it’s not worth making your life miserable. you’re not happy anymore, it’s too much, you’ve given all the time, given him all the chances, all the space, but still nothing happens. breaking up means you realize that you love yourself too. just stop the unhealthy, unproductive and unhappy relationship and move on. accept that she’s not the one,he’s not the one. realize that you deserve better.

love is a beautiful feeling. noone can live without being loved. so for those of you who has someone, appreciate him/her. appreciate that person. not everybody is with somebody right now so be thankful. tell her/him how you feel, look deep in her eyes and into her and tell her you love her, be thankful coz being with someone is an awesome gift. for those of you who doesnt have anyone, it’s not your time yet, someone will come along, she/he doesnt have to be perfect the way you picture it coz noone is. you just have to be yourself, don’t ever pretend to be someone you’re not just to impress her, coz if you do… you would have lied even before your relationship started. someone is bound to be with someone. don’t force anything. if she doesn’t like you move on. if you’re personalities collide move on. at some point in time the one you’ve been waiting for will come along. for those of you who has given up love, tired of it, think it’s cliche, think it’s a waste, afraid of being hurt. you need a break. it doesnt hurt to be single. at some point in time you’ll find someone. just you wait, you’ll see him, meet her in an unexpected way, meet her through friends, and then it’s your chance at love again. don’t get ever tired of love, it’s the one thing you can’t live without.

we fall inlove, we become a better person, all is good, somethin goes wrong, we compromise and make ends meet, we fall out of love and we LEARN from our mistakes, then we become better a person again. love is a beautiful thing. i can’t wait to have mine…

thanks for spending time, i appreciate it…

God Bless You always

maRu