Love has become cheap; therefore it has become less valuable than it used to be and it is supposed to be.
Easy come, easy go. Does that ring a bell?
All the yearning for love is gone, and the sleepless nights and restless days pining for love is out of fashion, laughable even. We are into instant everything; romance surely is included.
Diamonds and gold aren’t forever. “I sold my wedding band from my previous marriage and got my money the next day,” a young lady beams in a commercial, with money in hand.
One out of two marriages ends in divorce and the average marriage span is five short years.
Ah, romantic love. The candlelight dinner, the moonlight walk, the longing, the panting, the bachelor parties, the wedding bells, the honeymoon. All those trappings surely don’t make love stay.
What makes love stay isn’t the sweet talk and vows you have given in exchange for something you yearn to possess or the physical pleasure you long to gratify; what causes it to last is your commitment to love and a strong will to keep your promises for better or for worse.
Love has become cheap; let’s make it expensive again by paying a great price, not with money but with something far more valuable than money. To love is to value the object of our love by not degrading her or reducing her into a mere object; to love is to commit to the one whom you love even when the feeling of love is no longer present; to love is to wait and not to rush the fruition of love by coercion and manipulation by words or deeds; to love is to wait and wait some more…
Love has become cheap; let’s make it expensive again. It’s a pearl of great price, so don’t trample on it like swine.
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