Today's post is titled "Loving Love", an awkward title for a post right? Yes I know but it did its job, it captured your attention and increased your level of curiosity. Loving love is not all about others but about us grasping the intention of love.
February is a month popularly tagged "the month of love" because it harbors a special day dedicated to express love, although personally I believe love is an emotion that should be expressed everyday and to everyone irregardless of their identity. This does not mean lovers, family and friends should not take this day into consideration it only means that we should not limit our ability to love and express our emotions to this day alone.
As a thriving youth in this present time I also understand that a lot has been taken for granted or out of context, many laugh at beautiful compliments, despise the sentence i love you and could care less about emotional gestures. All these should not mean that we stop expressing these feelings, just because life is hard does not mean we stop living right? I am equally guilty of misreading compliments like many of us would agree because it seem that as the generations grow older we begin to view gentlemen as flirts, independent women as proud and virtuous ladies as pretenders. This should not be the case, rather we should learn to embrace these qualities and treat them as the treasures they are meant to be.
That is why loving love itself should start out with us loving ourselves by this we teach ourselves to stop waiting for a mask to fall off someone's face, or for our fears to hunt our happiness by this we start hoping and living not fearing and dying in insecurities.
Let me take us all back to the basics as far as my own understanding can go; Love stands for a lot of beautiful things, it is an emotion that houses several emotions like joy, purity, beauty, fulfillment among several others but how can we express love if we have not fully embraced ourselves.
We now live in a world where there are several insecurities and several people thriving in low self-esteem because we have left the basics, jumped the gun. we want to start loving others when we have not loved ourselves. By loving ourselves we open a new dimension, one where you see yourself as the deserving person you are, one where the world is yours to take and not one where we cower and hide behind the facade of public acceptance because the truth is not everyone will love you or your ideals but everyone could admire your strength of holding on to them.
I charge us all that while we are yet in this season of love let us learn to embrace ourselves, to embrace our strength and weakness, our beauty and our flaws then and only then can we learn to love others. You cannot share what you do not possess, you can only share love because you are filled with it . Decide to fall in love with love and not just the idea of love because it is such a beautiful feeling just as it is a beautiful idea.
Note: Loving yourself does not mean you are perfect or above anyone else it simply means you know your flaws and have grown to accept and understand them. Do not use the excuse of loving yourself as a means to make others feel terrible about who they are or what they stand for.
I want us all to embrace this emotion and watch as it opens doors of confidence we never knew existed. Love was made to be beautiful and when expressed accordingly it becomes irresistible to all.Before I end this post I would share a beautiful bible passage regarding love. it goes thus,
" Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away(But love still remains)." - 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8
I love you all and appreciate your support.Have a wonderful valentine's day celebration, stay safe and act safely and responsibly.
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what would you do if you got this for vals *emotional trauma tho* |
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