Marriage of True Minds

Okay, it's been a long time since I post something on this blog, and believe me, it has left me empty and lonely. Okay fine, i'm a bit exaggerating. But still, I do feel hollow with what I'm doing. I know my studies are my priorities, but I grow tired of doing things to keep up with the pressures of a student's life--- project deadlines, quizzes, examinations, homework, advance reading... Sigh. I'm longing to express myself.

Anyway, enough with pity self-talk. I'm back here to post! Yay!

Because I'm pretty tired right now to write about my typical (semi-pathetic) life, let me just share you one of my most favorite sonnets, the Sonnet 116 by the great William Shakespeare.

Sonnet 116, "Let me not to the marriage of true minds"

William Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds

Or bends with the remover to remove

Oh no! It's an ever fixed mark

That looks on the tempest and is never shaken

It is the star to every wandering bark

Whose worth's unknown, athough his height be taken

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come:

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

My own interpretation to this lovely sonnet.

Line 1--- Let me not to the mere legality of marriage, in which the supposed-to-be unbreakable vows can be nullified by human law.
Line 2-4-- What you feel is not love if it changes when your lover changes. Neither it is love when it's lost if your lover leaves you.
Line 5-6--Love is like a lighthouse; it faces the worst trials among lovers yet its foundation is never shaken.
Line 7-8-- Love, like the height of the stars up in the sky, is immeasurable, yet you know the overwhelming feeling to be with your love.
Line 9-10-- It is not love if it becomes less powerful with time. Love endures to forever, though the glorying crown of youthfulness does not. 
Line 11-12--Time will wear out anyone's beauty, but not love, which endures up to any man's twilight.
Line 13-14-- If anyone can prove me wrong, I daresay all my works and achievements are bootless, and no man has ever truly loved.

Finding True Love

How to find true love

“For true love is patient; it is kind. It’s not jealous, nor it is blind, and love rejoices in the truth, not in the wrong. Love never ends.”

The extraordinary Taj Mahal, the astonishing painting of Mona Lisa and even the great Trojan War----all of these were made because of love.  

True love brings the heaven closer to the earth. It makes life effortless, spontaneous, beautiful, and worth living for. It describes life; it defines us. It is the delicately bizarre feeling when we know we finally meet the one we are dreaming for, the one who doesn’t love us for what we have, but for who we are. It’s an amazing, unexplainable connection that magically ignites between the two hearts----no reason, no grounds, just pure love. So what’s the secret password to reach this emotional attachment?

Love yourself first

Yes, you certainly deserve to be loved, but do you even give yourself the love you’re looking for? Do you value your strengths, talents and beauty? Or do you criticize your weakness and inabilities, always compare yourself with others and wish that someday you could change your façade? Then maybe you should begin to love yourself first before anything and anyone. 

Take time to look at yourself, dig deeper into your hearts, and know your feelings, desires and even your obscurity. In this way, even though your potential relationship needs to come to its end, you’ll still have the love from yourself. This love will embrace and protect you from completely breaking into pieces, and when the time comes when you’ve cried enough, you’ll be ready to face the world and love again. 

Enjoy life while you’re single

Singles are not doomed. They are happy, even happier than those in relationships. They tend to be able to love more people and enjoy life at greater boundaries, since no lover would hold them back. So don’t take pity on yourself, you are not missing anything anyway. Look at you’re status as an opportunity to communicate with new people with common interest.  Get up and club on Saturday nights, do your extreme sports, go to the beach, invite your friends for a dinner party, go shopping, live life in a way you’ll never regret. With this vibrant attitude, you’ll be likely to eventually catch the eyes and meet you’re one true love.

Appreciate life

Value life-----and you’ll be surprised on how the universe will respond to make you value it more, like the possibility of finding true love. Appreciation is simply one of those highest positive vibrations you could ever feel in this world, and this usually bounces back to you in the sweetest form you’ve never expected---love. Thus, be grateful and live each day like you’ve never been so blessed before. Look and smile at the people, your home, your health, your friends and family, your cute pet waiting for your cuddle.

Know your ideal mate

Face it, there’s no perfect guy that exists. Yes, we would be initially attractive if the guy is gorgeous, rich, smart, independent, drives his own expensive car or other sorts of fanciness. We tend to become delusional with the perfect Prince Charming we dream of. It’s just sad that the guys have to keep up with these illusions. 

However, the truth is, we don’t really need all those immaculately faultless traits to be real happy in a relationship. We just need to know and identify those specific qualities that we must see in our ideal mate to be contented and fulfilled. If we don’t choose our future partner according to those qualities, we start to forcefully accept and settle in the relationship. We begin to fake our feelings and eventually resent him for not satisfying what we need in the long run, thus leading to bigger problems.

LoveLoveLove

Love Quotes

Hi! I'm sort of in love today since I realize there are still several people out there (especially this special one <3) who love me. It's weird right? Knowing that today is Halloweeen? Lol. Well I guess I feel the love in the air if it's some kind of horror day. Rofl. Anyway, I compiled a couple of love quotes in which some are in Filipino language, so lucky for you Filipino readers. :) Enjoy!

Loving someone who doesn't feel the same way, is like using a WHITE CRAYON in a WHITE PAPER---- you exert effort, yet its always invisible.

It is impossible to find someone who will never hurt you...

So go on for the one who is WORTH ALL THE PAIN..

He said: Walang matinong lalaki sa malanding babae.

She said: Walang malanding babae kung matino ang lalaki

Sino sa tingin mo ang tama?

Girl: Ano pangarap mo?

Boy: Gusto ko mapag-isa

Girl: Sunget mo naman!!!

Boy: Ang puso nating dalawa... <3

While kuya is studying his lessons, his little brother came to ask him;

Little Brother: Kuya, ano ang love?

Kuya: Ang love parang ikaw... ISTORBO sa pag-aaral!

One of the most happiest things on earth is when you know you're in love with someone who is more in love with you... [so true]

[This is in Bisayan language]

Kung ikaw akong kontra sa lumbag dagan...

pwede maglakaw na lang ta?

Nganu mo dagan pa man ko kung kuyog na nako akong premyo?

Huwag kang magtaka kung bigla kang i-kidnap at ilagay sa sako,

si Santa Claus yun... Ikaw kasi ang wish ko ngayong pasko...

[And my most favorite one]

You will never be enough for everybody...

But this is for sure;

You are the best for someone who really appreciates you...

I end this post with the poem I love, Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds, by the well-admired William Shakespeare. 

SONNET 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark 

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks 

Within his bending sickle's compass come: 

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, 

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

   If this be error and upon me proved,

   I never writ, nor no man ever loved. 

And here's its analysis taken line by line...

Let me not declare any reasons why two

True-minded people should not be married. Love is not love

Which changes when it finds a change in circumstances,

Or bends from its firm stand even when a lover is unfaithful:

Oh no! it is a lighthouse

That sees storms but it never shaken;

Love is the guiding north star to every lost ship,

Whose value cannot be calculated, although its altitude can be measured.

Love is not at the mercy of Time, though physical beauty

Comes within the compass of his sickle.

Love does not alter with hours and weeks,

But, rather, it endures until the last day of life.

If I am proved wrong about these thoughts on love

Then I recant all that I have written, and no man has ever [truly] loved. I love this poem. I hope you see why I do so... Enjoy your Halloweens Guys!!!