The singer in the Song of Solomon begs us not to
awaken love before its proper time. I remembered that line when a friend of
mine sought my advice on what he must do to stop day-dreaming about a girl he
thought he had forgotten.
He first met this girl six years ago and she told
him off when he professed. Deeply hurt, he hit back that he didn't care and
meant every word. He bumped into her again recently and all the hidden embers
suddenly shot into fiery flames.
"Man, this is the girl I must marry," he told me
breathlessly.
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| Young lady, don't awaken love before its proper time |
To me she's just an ordinary girl but to my friend
she has a mysterious quality so consuming his mind keeps reverting to it.
It just makes you to pause and marvel. What is it about love that keeps us awake in
the night when we want to sleep?
Love is something the world's best psychological
brains need to explore. We have gone to the moon and invented the most
dangerous nuclear weapons. But who can explain why a man can fall in love with
one woman so much that his life loses its colour without her?
Some people think Shakespeare was the world's best
in waxing lyrical about love. But I wish there's a machine that records the
thoughts a man has about a woman he truly loves. But truly the best love lines
will never be written because they are so deep they can never be captured by words.
Love is that strong that you fall in love at your
own peril if you don't have the emotional stability and inner strength way
beyond the ordinary. Sometimes it's even better to marry a woman you are not
very much in love with. Because the heaviness of too much love keeps its
victims staggering under its weight so much that true happiness remains a
dream beyond their attainment.
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