About Love

Last year when I was helping my sister in law clear her old books and stuff, I chanced upon this old book that she had for a long time chucked away in an old box. I am not a fan of the "chicken soup series" but was curious what is being written in the book series that is so popular with many. "Chicken Soup for the Couple's Soul" was the title of the book and needless to say, I had expected it to be a sort of book that talks about love and commitment between couples and how to strengthen a couple's relationship and stuff...sort of like a counselling type of book. I kept the book and told myself that I'll spend some time reading it, together with some other books that piled on the top of my chest of drawers.

Just 2 days back, I was clearing something from my drawer and my eyes landed on the particular book on the top and something compelled me to pick up the book and started reading the first few pages. After that, I couldn't put down the book. The content is far from the other relationship building or counselling books that I have read before and I was surprised to read that inside it was a compilation of many many real life stories from couples and people all over the world, telling about their love, commitment and undying eternal love of their spouses through different times. Many stories inside touched my heart and reminded me of what I went through with hubby. There are moments in our marriage that I had felt that there's nothing "new" going on between us, and wished so much for us to rediscover the magic and excitement of getting to know each other all over again. However, after reading the book, I realised that I had focused on the wrong side of our marriage. What I didn't put into my thoughts that much was the different cumulative gifts that was given to each other over the last 15 years that we spent together, which no one can experience or feel except for us. Suddenly, I miss him so much and tell myself that the first thing I am going to do when I see him this Saturday was to give him a big big hug to tell him wherever he is, I am there with him also.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone;it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new..