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A Century-old Quest
November 11, 2006
Others, meanwhile, are too preoccupied in their career or family responsibilities or their future or themselves that they fail to notice love trying to make itself recognized. Sometimes, people are too engrossed in fantasizing and romanticizing that they miss out the real kind of love trying to get their attention. Some of them, however, have become skeptical, perhaps because they have been faced with harsh realities in loving or that they have learned from the many broken relationships they had before. Perhaps also they are just being realistic and are finding it hard to be convinced that someone can actually love them well enough to jump with them trough life’s ebb and flow.
Some people, on the other hand, are simply content for having found love in other forms than romance. Yet there are those who are ready to fall in love and be swept away into the strong current of romantic love affair but never really finding that special half whom they can entrust their hearts. It seems that despite having received propositions of affection, their hearts can’t seem to beat faster for a special person whom they are utterly secured… and the quest continues.
In the end, no matter how we have consumed ourselves with lovers “here and there” or with preoccupations that seem important to us, a part of ourselves longs to fall in love. And that when that desire is so strong and it happens that we are brave enough to plunge, we discover that the unknown is worth discovering. And no matter how busy we are, skeptic or cynical or unmoved and unaffected, we cannot evade the fact that we want someone to grow old with. And no matter how exhilarating being in one relationship to another is or how liberating being alone can be, being with one person to another just gets tiring, so does being alone.
