Courage to Love

Was chatting with EeHua earlier and she told me that she wanted to write an article on Courage to Love. Too bad the hour is rather late for us to talk about this topic as both of us have to work tomorrow, so we never really go into it. Was about to hit my bed and enter dreamland when I decided to come to my keyboard to post my thoughts.

From my perspective, it takes courage to love someone. Courage to overcome fear, courage to overcome all odds, courage to overcome the unknown and most of all, courage to face it all. Some people says, it takes courage to face lonliness but to me, I find that it takes even greater courage to face love.

Is Love that scary? Nope. Is Lonliness scary? Nope, neither. For someone who takes lonliness as a friend and protector, lonliness is never scary. In some sense, lonliness is just a state in the mind, are we really lonely at times, or are we just blind to the presence of the Divine whom is ferrying us through those tough and difficult times? In fact, when you learn and understand lonliness, it is never an enemy, nor is it a foe to be fear but a friend whom you can learn to embrace so that it can help you in tough and difficult time as you might have to face it alone.

Then what about Love, why does Love takes Courage? Some says that love is meant to be free, love meant to be happy. Then, why is it difficult to face love? My reply to this, are we ready to face and accept love when it comes? Love is like sunlight which shines. Imagine that our heart is like a room. When we haven't find love, the room is dark. We cannot see the state of the room, we never knew the condition of the heart. When we find love, it shines like a ray of golden light when peek through the window on the room which lights up our hearts. We can finally see the state of the room. To our dismay, we can see how messy and dusty the room is... Because of this, we choose not to see truth or the condition of the heart, we turn our back on love because we are too ashame to see it. Hence, we can see... it takes real courage to love.

Of course, it also takes courage to face rejection when we confess our love to someone. In fact, we are risking it all when we confess our feelings to that someone. We are putting the friendship, the bond, the happy moment that 2 person shared as friends at stake. Hence, there is much to lose which takes real courage to confess our love. There are people who tends to be more protective towards themselves as they don't want to get hurt. In fact, nobody wants to get hurt, neither do they want to hurt others. For them, they can't lift up the courage to face love. It is not wrong, it is because they love themselves a bit more.

Lastly, Love is a journey of unknown and uncertainty between 2 perfect strangers walking alongside each other. When face with many different situations which may arise, how will the couples react to it? Besides understanding and trust between the couple, it also takes courage to stand by love, stand alongside each other and overcome all odds.

Before I end, I will just like to share a quote which I read from a movie novel titled "摘星" written by Eric Wu aka 吴若权 which I find very meaningful and related to the topic, "Courage to Love".

"世间上，最美好的爱恋，是为一个人付出时的勇敢。即使因此被伤得体无完肤，也无怨无悔。"

So, to my readers, I hope that you all can find the needed courage to face fear, to face lonliness and most of all, have the courage to face love.