Let’s talk about love

LOVE, for all its fineries is a very vicious weapon. It has the capacity to viciously destroy, to bring down even the mightiest of heroes, the strongest of hearts and the heaviest of arms. Love has the ability to take what was perfectly right and upset it, change its appearance and make it seem worthless.

Love brings down the strongest of nations, reduces them to rumbles, to nothing, to empty wastelands that thereafter have no hope of ever bearing fruits.

Remember the Greek story of Helen of Troy, or maybe I should refer it to its more commonly known name; the “Trojan War.” Prince Paris of Troy, all in the name oflove, kidnapped the beautiful Helen, wife of another king, unknown to Prince Paris, an oath has been sworn by all the former suitors of Helen to go into war with her husband in the event that she was ever kidnapped.

What next for Saraki in Kwara?

Prince Paris took Helen in the name oflove and this eventually resulted in destruction of his nation, his people, his heritage and the lives of the various people who came to war with him or against him.

The irony of love is that though it resides in each and every one of us, we all have the ability to wreak havoc with this vicious weapon, we can’t all sit and throw judgment out at Prince Paris or Samson or even Adam for what they did in the name of love, because like it or not, in our own ways, we have destroyed lives and properties in the name of love.

I’m not saying love is a terrible thing, I said it is a vicious weapon, it’s a weapon, you decide what to do with it, you decide who gets to use this weapon against you.

Just as there are stories of destruction because of love, there are also stories of growth and progress because of love. Love is magical. We all in our own ways have experienced the magic that love is. Love brings calmness even when there are storms all around. Some of us won’t even be in existence if it wasn’t for love.

You get to decide what you do with the love inside of you. Have you been hurt so bad that the only way you think it can all go away is by hurting others? Or have you been hurt so bad that you strive each and every day to make sure that nobody ever has to go through the hurt you went through, so you make every moment of your life worthwhile by showing love everywhere you go.

Grace Abejide,

Ibadan