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Aug. 22, 2006 The other day, I met an old acquaintance. We have not seen each other for years. She recently got engaged and planned to wed this autumn. I congratulated her and said, “You must love him enough to give up the single life.” She laughed and replied, “I can always get a divorce and find a new man.” She said it so casually as if marriage and divorce are just ordinary things in life, like eating and sleeping. Looking at the alarming divorce rate world wide, every year that number increases. Why do people busy fall in love and so quickly fall out of it. Does anyone believe in everlasting relationship any more? Someone from work passed away last week. He was in his late sixties, friendly and humble with a sunny personality. He liked singing Italian classic songs and by chance, I also discovered his other talent. He wrote beautiful poetry. The couple had been married for over forty years, no children. They took care of each other through good time and bad. Often I heard him talking tenderly over the cell phone during lunch hour to his wife. On the funeral, his wife read a poem that he wrote to her days before his death. It was touching, sad, yet heart warming. He expressed how much he loved his wife and wished to spend more time with her. She cried so hard and could not finish reading the poem. What is love? I wonder. What makes some relationships work and some do not? There might not be an easy answer. Frankly, to match two different individuals together is a tough mission. How on earth do you know what you find is the one that will last? Some give up the idea of finding a soul mate, “they don’t exist, so why waste the time.” Some keep on trying, one marriage after another, until they hit the ‘jackpot’, well, maybe not exactly a ‘jackpot’. And some just wait; wait till all their youth utterly spend. Can’t blame them, why live with a person you don’t even love only for the sake of companionship? Fairy tales are far from reality, face it, even a modern time princess may not have a happy ending. Despite it all, true love does exist in this world and it maybe closer than you think. You just have to look hard in order to recognize it, try harder to make it work, and finally cherish what you have, so it will last. Love does not come to a conclusion when the couple unites in church. Marriage is merely the highlight of a relationship. Only the best survives on the long run. Don’t we all desire the very best?
What you give is what you shall receive. May our minds are filled with fond memories, worthy of remembrance.
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