True Love: Myth or Fact?

They both met on a ship. He was an adventurous young man seeking to start a new life in another country. She was the daughter of an aristocrat, young and lovely to look upon. By an unknown twist of fate, they found themselves head over heels in love with each other. Their love was true and pure even till death when he had to sacrifice himself for her to live after their ship capsized. 50 years later, she is old, alone but still in love with him as she reminisced her experience to a group of explorers searching for answers.
If you are usual viewer of top grossing movies, you will already know that the story is that of The Titanic. When you watch a movie like that, you feel good and enjoy the story while it lasts. The feeling is mutual when you read a romantic novel-it makes you dream of true love come true. But more than once life has shown you another movie, one in which you are the main act, and of which the storyline turns pretty sour at the end. At this point you begin to reconsider the ideal you have about the existence of this so called true love.
“It probably does not exist. Let Disney continue to thrill us with their fantasy stories while we live in reality”, you think aloud to yourself.
There are certain things that make true love come true, in real life as we like to say it. One of such is that true love comes not by chance but by choice. The two lovers must truly and reservedly show themselves undiluted love, care and attention. Again, there can be no true love without giving. Giving in this context does not include splurging a month’s pay on a first date to impress her. Giving means opening your hands to each other’s needs without asking the common human question: “What’s in it for me?”. It is being that person that he can bare his soul out to, coming naked to you-without any fear of reprimand. Sacrifices are part of love. Where sacrifices are not made, love is not apparent. The Creator so loved his creation that He gave his dearly beloved son to die for their sins, even though they denied Him. Ancient Israel monarch, King Solomon sacrificed an innumerable count of cattle to his Lover. The depth of the love is evident in the size of the gift. Such sacrifices can be in finance, in time or in personal sentiments.
On a final note, true love must be worked hard at. It is said that nothing good comes easy and without pain, there can be no gain. If you have love as small as a mustard seed, in which you sow into the soil of the heart of one another, and both nurture it well, in time it will bloom to become a tree that gives life to the hope of the existence of true love in our world, becoming a testimony in the hearts of many to its alive, hale and hearty nature. After all, we all have the capacity to experience such love, not only Mr. John Legend.

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