Love Series: The Two Responses

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”

I always stuck whenever I think about "Love". I stuck by its mysterious way of changing people. Everyone love any kind of thing in various different way. Some people uttered their love by doing justice, some by doing violent act, some by caring so much, some by kissing frequently, some by showing-off to everyone they met, some by having sex...

But... Are all that things true? Honestly, I don't know the answer. Maybe first of all, we should consider these following questions:

1. What is love?

2. Why we love?

3. How Love works? How we work for it?

4. Who has possibility to love? Whom should be love?

I have no intention to give lecture here, what I want to do just share my view of love,

The quotation showed above is the best quotation ever (so far) I have ever read. C.S Lewis explained love in its depth, and I am amazed by his writings.

We as a human, tend not to show our weak points to other. I know that's natural, and apparently, we do this thing unconsciously. We built our reputation by giving our best performance to the world, and hide our bad character by not showing our true-self to the world. We need advice from others, we are human and we surely need people to help us changing.

This is how love works. Love doesn't work in one person. Love works in each of us. Love is God himself, and in Him alone, love is on its highest climax. We love others as we love ourselves. We love God with all our heart. We are always on the way, but what kind of way are we on?

To love is to be vulnerable.. But there's still a possibility if you want to be invulnerable, Just follow what C. S Lewis said, but don't grief for it's consequences...