Love

Love.

It's a simple four letter word. It's practically a cliche. For love is a whore of a word. It has been used so often as a lie or as the truth.  It's easy to say...love. It rolls out the tongue like a soft breeze in a summer night. It's easy to say. What it is, however, is difficult to find.  Everybody wants it.  Everybody is looking for it, but not everyone finds it. 

Love.

Sometimes, you think you have it and then then you'd find yourself wondering if you really truly had it. It's what makes people give up their faith or give up on their dreams. Ironically, it's also the one thing that can truly drive men to great heights. It's consuming.

With love, there are no half-measures.  Either you're with it, you're in it - or you're not. It does not give some tepid warmth.  It's consuming.  It eats your soul.  Curiously, however, to some that has truly find it, love is comforting as well.  It's an unpredictable dance with fate.  It's strange yet familiar. It's the burnt coals that are left once the fire is gone. It's soothing.

For some though, love is an eternal dream.  Something that you feel is real but once you reach out to it, you're left with nothing.  Some people tries to fill up the void with something else, but it's there.  It's a need that may go away for some, but it's always there.  Some people, however, eventually find peace in their solitary lives.  For love comes in different forms, some people content themselves with whatever they'd find.  It does not matter if its love for their children, love for work or the love for a person they cannot have. For some love is not something you trifle with.  So, some friends refuse to cross the line.  They cherish their friendship all their lives - forever toying with the idea. Wondering.

Not everyone knows they have it though.  Life gets in the way and love gets buried.  Some people have forgotten that love can be so powerful.  A word that stems from love can make the strongest man cry.

But then there are some people who know they have it. Love to them is knowing that they can just easily give a kiss or a hug - and know that it's welcomed and it's right. They can say "I love you" and they'd hear the same words back.  It doesn't matter when or where. It's knowing things that others don't.  Love to them is solace.  It's knowing that regardless of where they are, as long as they're together, they'd find home.

- Post Inspired by the Movie "One Day" :)