Ghandi on Love

*Romeo and Juliet

A very wise man once said:

"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."

That very wise man was Mohandas Gandhi. 

It is because we listen to wise men that we avoid many troubles in live and one of the reasons why get to grow old. With that said, I'd like to abound a little bit more on this quote.

In other words, what I understand Gandhi is trying to tell us is that, he says that to love, is to be courageous. But why? Why only the brave ones can love?

Gandhi knew that love is a very powerful thing. 

Previously, we discussed how love can give you a lot and take it away as easy. Well, it is yet another argument that repeats itself. You see, the pain caused by Love is one so strong, it can cause despair and make us feel like Life just spit us on the face and laughed while it walked away from us. But let us not be completely negative.

Love sure can harm us but it can also bring us amazing happiness and joy. This is why love is for the brave ones. You see, when we meddle with love, we bet on our happiness and well being. We bet to win, but we very well know that we can lose. One has to be very brave to accept the possibility of love even knowing what the consecuences are. Not only that, but love means SACRIFICE. When you love someone, you must give a big part of yourself to the person, but NEVER completely, and be willing to sacrifice preferences for the conformity of you and your partner. 

Cowards will never be able to do this, because cowards don't stand risk. They very well know the benefits of Love but they also know the other side of it. Not that sacrifice is bad, but sometimes it takes a lot of work and will to say no to things you like to please your partner or to get to a middle point.

In very unjust and cruel words, relationships are, to a certain point, like corporations or contracts between two people, because you have to agree on pretty much anything to avoid misunderstandings and bad times.

But love itself, going back to the point strictly, can be very painful. You can fall in love with someone and never be loved by that person. Sometimes love can give you a lot of hope and it can dissapoint you. So in this sense, love, in itself, is something that takes a lot of courage to embrace because of all the odds that are against you. 

Another thing we should keep in mind is that, love has many ways to be. Love is not only the relationship, sexual type. There are different types of love, and this argument applies to each and every kind of love. Raising a family is something for people with the courage to fight for their families. Also, we have to take into consideration the kind of love that society dissaproves, for example homosexual love. To declare your heart in this society, to a person of your same sexual gender, takes a <shit> load of courage. Only brave people can say "I am gay. I like men even though I am a man myself." or "I love women, even though I am a woman  myself". I admire all those people that stand up in the name of love for themselves and don't care what others think. Because these people know that love is above ALL that. That Love has NO RULES. That love is dangerous but its many many times worth it.

But either way, I can assure you that most of the people that have experienced love, including those who have gotten that which they hoped for, and those that didn't, don't regret giving love a chance. Because love is something so powerful, and so beautiful,  that is a bittersweet relationship that you just can't get enough of. 

And if you do feel like love isn't for you, or that you simply have bad luck, I exhort you to not give up love because love is one of the few universal things that we all have a right to, and that is capable of anything and everything and once it hits you with its best shot, you will feel like nothing can stop you. Sure you had a bad experience but love will come once again and make those bad memories go away, even if by a period of time. But I assure you that, if you still remember that bad experience, you will start to give it less and less important because love will help you grow and understand the mechanisms on which life works and show you that no one has the power, or should have the power to make you feel bad. 

So if you want to feel that magnificent force, and experience the best thing ever invented by God, go ahead and love.