Unbounded Veracities

While looking for that old text back in college, I came to see one pile of papers and browsed through them. Let me share with you an old Theo 131 paper of mine (Marriage, Family Life and Human Sexuality Course in Ateneo):
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The profundity of love can never be encapsulated with words for every mystery that lies beneath its complexity is boundless for words. Different appreciations for various contexts, every individual has his own experience to relate with in attempting to discuss the very essence of love. The attempt to define love is in itself, a mystery that would revolve in a deeper effort to explain one's knowledge that has been attached to many categories of love.

As the years have come and passed, I have become more mature in handling life's ambiguity, coming to understand that the best feelings are those that have no words to describe them. Whenever we feel ecstatic, the overjoyed emotions become vivid from the outside so much so that the need to verbally express it becomes futile. Just in attempting to utter the words "I love you" to one's significant other, we are in our continuous search for words to just convey the message in a tangible manner able to capture emotions complementing it. Metaphors, symbols, and the like often help up define these so-called "feelings" that trigger our moods. True, love should not be misconstrued as a feeling for it is rooted in the decisions that may volitional and not emotional. Love is an intention and an action, so much so that we have the willingness to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. Indeed, it is not a matter of finding the "right" person because being right for the other may not be right for another, but a matter of being the right person for the one you choose to love.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. We love because we find that special happiness that we long and seek to have; we have been called by God to love for He is love and in knowing who He is, we learn who man is.

The world is a vast place that is full of love. We are surrounded by God's creations that continue to remind us of His infinite love for humankind and for the rest of His creatures. Our existence is a reality that love is present; that we are destined to be co-creators of God in living a life of vocation. How we respond to God's challenges becomes our test to reveal His love to others. Just as in choosing to love, how we react to the circumstances is inherently involved in achieving our fullest potential as human beings, and growing to be who we should be for ourselves as well as for the person we choose to love. This spiritual growth is in its essence, an effort to include someone in the core of one's life such that self-love and self-growth becomes fulfilled.

We are all agents of our own actions. What we have shown others may be their foundation of defining our individualistic nature. Just as what Scott Peck said, "The experience of real love has to do with ego boundaries, since it involves an extension of one's limits." There were times when my limits have become overstretched to the point that I had decided on letting go and ending the very sublime experience of being in love but I have come to realize that it has been even stronger because of this transcendence. My limit starts to defy its bounds. I am able to survive even more when I extend my limits to the fullest capacity. This is a choice that has molded me into becoming a better person even more.

Love is when one knows that no matter what is done at the end of the day, you won't change your mind; it is only wanting what's best for that special person. 

Copyright 07.12.2007
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Christmas always reminds me of love. It's funny how I realized what I've written 4 years back is still appropriate in 2011. Advanced Merry Christmas! :)