WHAT IS LOVE?

Is it the proverbial butterfly in your stomach? Making you giddy, breathless, and losing all sense of reason?

Is it that which makes you smile like an idiot for just about any reason?

How do we define this feeling that can make you a saint or the vilest person to ever walk this earth?

What is this…

This pleasant beautiful gut-wrenching wonderful sad hair-tearing all goofy smile feeling that engulfs you and wraps you in its tentacles, never letting go even after it’s long gone, fleeting away to soundlessly land on the shoulder of the next person unfortunate, or fortunate as the case may be, to find it?

What is this thing that makes you selfish, yet selfless all in one breath?

How on earth could just one person make your heart beat faster, every day, every minute, every second?

You are not even aware of time; you see this object of your love and you suddenly understand how time is an illusion.

How could a pet’s death rip your heart out of your chest? I thought you are supposed to love a fellow human?

Oh no?

No!

You love pets, you love plants, you love just about anything lovable because you are human and humans can love anything or anyone no matter out of place.

How could a feeling make you spend your last penny on that little dog on the streets and in the same vein make anyone kill?

Hitler murdered millions because of his LOVE for Germany! Of course, this might sound preposterous but if you think about it, Hitler thought he was in love with the idea of making Germany the purest and greatest country in the world.

Shall we then, at last, define love and call it delusional?

Is there an escape from this thing that we cannot define?

Love is beautiful.

Love is stupid.

Love is kind.

Love is evil.

Love is cruel.

Love is patient.

And in the same vein, murderous.

Love makes the world go round.

Love can save our planet.

I hope we let it.

Before it is too late.

Written by Sisí Afrika.