What Love Is 4

Every man has the capacity to love. But that is not all. Everyone has the need to love. From our youngest years, we cry for attention; we want to be noticed, we need to be appreciated. The desire to be great is the desire to be loved. That is the essence behind the want to be needed. To be special is to be loved. And we always want it, because we have always needed it.

After an individual has got to a certain age, life starts to become meaningless when there is no love. A girl may be very serious with her studies, try so hard to excel, be so hardworking and industrious, be successful in business and other endeavours, and put up an appearance f being happy. But deep down inside, in the core of her being, she feels empty. She is sad; life becomes vanity, because love is absent. Wives of very rich men love social clubbing, join many organizations, trying so hard to get meaning out of their lives, because they need a little bit of love in their world. There can be sense of fulfillment when love is lacking.

Solomon was a great man. He learnt a lot in the university in Egypt. He was with knowledge and he could apply it, thus he was wise. He was rich, very rich, beyond measure. He understood romance and was quick with potent pick-up lines. He was able to woo a thousand women, even a queen of another distant land. He wooed successfully the princesses of various kingdoms and many daughters of noble men. But he never felt love. And at the end, he concluded that life is vanity upon vanity. We are born to love and be loved.

A teacher advised his undergraduate students, “if you don’t have a girlfriend, go and get one.” Love makes you want to impress, it spurs people on, it drives us, it makes us achieve more, it makes us better persons. If you would like a person to be the way you want, make him love you. He will be amenable, like clay, and you may be able to mould him into any shape you want – this is supposed to be a secret. But it’s true.

Love is the chief component of reality!