Too much love may destroy you
Oct 03, 2007
WE all love rain and peaceful rivers. They are life allies, with an all round indiscriminate benefit, not even CHOGM can bring. Just like love, they bring peace of mind and betterment of life.
WE all love rain and peaceful rivers. They are life allies, with an all round indiscriminate benefit, not even CHOGM can bring. Just like love, they bring peace of mind and betterment of life.
And, like love, rain and rivers can change moods suddenly, leaving victims wondering how things can change so suddenly from tranquil to turmoil.
Water is good and appreciated as a God-given resource. So is love. When it comes in the right measure at the right time, it leaves bliss. But floods are not such a good idea as Teso people will tell you. Even God knows how deadly floods can be and, according to the Bible, floods were used as a strategy to a weapon of mass destruction during Noah’s time.
Love comes to us like rain or floods. As rain, it gives us life, hope, relations, productivity and energy. But when it floods, it is more likely to cause destruction: Break previous ties and friendships, shatter bonds with parents, make you abandon your objectives and aspirations, and make you too rebellious, too adventurous and too daring.
When love becomes unmanageable, it ceases to be useful. Instead of comfort, there are distinct feelings of panic, uncertainty, overpowering lust, feverish excitement, impatience, and jealousy. You may be thrilled, but not happy, wanting to trust, yet suspicious. There are lingering, nagging doubts about your partner and his/her love. There is a high degree of sexual charge around. It is a rush and it is intense. It is difficult to concentrate.
We call it infatuation. You get miserable when they are away, almost like you are not complete unless they are around. And, somehow being with them is not complete unless it ends in some type of sexual encounter.
That kind of flooding is dangerous. We may never predict how love will come to us, but we need to have the sniffing power to tell which type is dangerous and what we can do about it. If love makes you throw out friends, relatives, parents just because they do not agree with your partner; there is a problem somewhere.
If you feel compelled to abandon your religion, ambition and career because they contradict Beloved, be wary. You may cut all trees in the forest to chase after one person, but in the event that the love passes away, you have no where to hide.
It is good to love, but it is better to keep your friends, relatives, religion and ambitions. Love that forces you to make too many structural changes is dangerous. It makes you what you are not and leaves you alienated from your real identity. When the chemical flood dries up, disillusionment apologies reconstruction and learning will be an additional burden to your disappointment.
The choice is yours: You can let the relationship move into a loving romantic one. But you also allow it to break the river banks at your own cost and peril. Love is powerful. But you need to be prevailing to control it.
And, like love, rain and rivers can change moods suddenly, leaving victims wondering how things can change so suddenly from tranquil to turmoil.
Water is good and appreciated as a God-given resource. So is love. When it comes in the right measure at the right time, it leaves bliss. But floods are not such a good idea as Teso people will tell you. Even God knows how deadly floods can be and, according to the Bible, floods were used as a strategy to a weapon of mass destruction during Noah’s time.
Love comes to us like rain or floods. As rain, it gives us life, hope, relations, productivity and energy. But when it floods, it is more likely to cause destruction: Break previous ties and friendships, shatter bonds with parents, make you abandon your objectives and aspirations, and make you too rebellious, too adventurous and too daring.
When love becomes unmanageable, it ceases to be useful. Instead of comfort, there are distinct feelings of panic, uncertainty, overpowering lust, feverish excitement, impatience, and jealousy. You may be thrilled, but not happy, wanting to trust, yet suspicious. There are lingering, nagging doubts about your partner and his/her love. There is a high degree of sexual charge around. It is a rush and it is intense. It is difficult to concentrate.
We call it infatuation. You get miserable when they are away, almost like you are not complete unless they are around. And, somehow being with them is not complete unless it ends in some type of sexual encounter.
That kind of flooding is dangerous. We may never predict how love will come to us, but we need to have the sniffing power to tell which type is dangerous and what we can do about it. If love makes you throw out friends, relatives, parents just because they do not agree with your partner; there is a problem somewhere.
If you feel compelled to abandon your religion, ambition and career because they contradict Beloved, be wary. You may cut all trees in the forest to chase after one person, but in the event that the love passes away, you have no where to hide.
It is good to love, but it is better to keep your friends, relatives, religion and ambitions. Love that forces you to make too many structural changes is dangerous. It makes you what you are not and leaves you alienated from your real identity. When the chemical flood dries up, disillusionment apologies reconstruction and learning will be an additional burden to your disappointment.
The choice is yours: You can let the relationship move into a loving romantic one. But you also allow it to break the river banks at your own cost and peril. Love is powerful. But you need to be prevailing to control it.