My Animal Inside: Still in Love with the Sacred

Does the animal that represent me affect the way I love? I do not think it will be a huge factor, because nothing can really dictate how we’ll decide our various ways with love, or anything else related to it, for that matter. Love is more complex and intricate. And in my opinion, it mainly circles unceasingly around one of the most important things in the world: time. The presents that we live in are the futures that our pasts have imagined. 

Love is a prayerful present tense. I would make this statement boldly: In my honest opinion, not a single person in this world should ever claim that he or she is not in love. Although the clichéd anecdote saying asserts that “change is the only thing constant in this world,” I would beg to differ; because frankly, I have always perceived that saying as a bit flawed and rather misleading. Love is ubiquitous, eternal, timeless, and nothing can hinder it from spreading, from letting anyone embrace the sweet sensation. Only the contexts are different – a person could love a new person and hate another; the people in love would die, but their romance could be preserved; a person could only have familial and not romantic love, but it is always there nonetheless.

Love is a prayerful future tense. Love is full of possibilities; love is taking on every chance there is. One views love through the lens of the future in hope that the love will not begin to fade away and completely vanish one day. One could only hope that the love and connection right now will always be there, but of course, we must remember that no one else but ourselves are capable of letting that love grow. Only our actions, motivations, feelings could cause that love to bloom and to never wither, whatever happened.

Love is a prayerful past tense. We’ve all heard those beautiful romances and those timeless stories that never fail to move our hearts, be it fiction or not. Love is about the past, indeed, but it is not about dwelling too much on the pain and tragedy of the yesterday and letting those memories destroy us, but instead, we should contemplate and allow those dark days to make us stronger, to change us for the better. Love is looking back to have an idea of what happened to other people or to you, and then try not to commit the same mistakes again. While most people would say that pondering about the past is a wrong idea, it can be an effective remedy for whatever you’re hurting about right now.

Although love might seem somewhat simple and straightforward in the façade, it is undoubtedly much more elaborate and complicated than it appears. No one can provide the perfect and single explanation for what love really is, because it is merely a matter of contexts and how we view things through our different lenses. Indeed, love has an undeniably intimate relationship with time, because the latter can be considered as one of the ingredients love is made of. And yes, there could be other factors, depending on our beliefs, tradition, and the conventional ideas that lurk in the society. But regardless of the differences in contexts, the variations in ways, or other things, one notion is for certain: love is constant and only the contexts in which it occur, on where and how it happens, are different.