The power of chance in the love equation

Right now, if you ask about the most beautiful woman in the world, I might be tempted to tell you with all my heart about Ruth Komuntale Thomas, but then you do not want Christopher Thomas coming after me with an American shotgun, do you? Anyway, when the two lovebirds sighed and locked hands and gazed into each faces with amorous eyes on the day they wedded, I took stock of this thing called love and by the end had agreed with American rapper DJ Maj that 'true love is mere chance.'

Thomas and Ruth after their wedding

I can relate with that because often the people we love do not love us and the people that love us we do not love them. Yet I have seen chance take precedence whereby two strangers meet, fall in love and begin to exist together as one in marriage and happily so. And for that, it is high time our conservative society slowed down on pushing people into marriage instead of letting chance do its thing.

Someone is fresh out of school and suddenly his family is on his case to get married, or is threatened with excommunication should he marry from a certain tribe. Why hasten love when it is obvious it will always come? Man would be incomplete without it- or to put it bluntly, without a wife to make love to without feeling guilty. God was not goofing when He created them male and female, not only for procreation, but for companionship as well.

But then the world has created its own dictates about love and relationships and we are better off defying them. I have said it on this page before and I want to repeat that conformity is deformity. When you love for money or to please your parents, or when you love because time is running out, that love is bound to grow cold sooner than later and suffer the fate of salt that loses its saltiness.

This is why we must oblige that invisible force that brings together two people that are meant to be. So, instead of feeling betrayed by Komutale for marrying a 'foreigner' or instead of hating on Thomas, let us appreciate that the love they found in each other has won. They were fated to find each other.

Meanwhile, stay optimistic for someone somewhere is waiting for you. Take your risk, remembering as that famous Roman poet Ovid wrote that, "Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."