All you need is love

Today is both Chinese New Year and Saint Valentine’s day. And I want to wish all my readers a happy year 2010 (or 4707 or whatever number it actually might be): you can still make some New Year resolutions and get a brand new start if that is what you need. The other occasion: Saint Valentine’s day is a more complicated topic. Because there are as many happy lovers celebrating the day as there are single people not celebrating it or even hating this particular day, one friend of mine even calls this day – A day of mourning and hope. Well, well… I think theoretically it is a nice tradition but the true meaning of this day is drowned in pink and red plush hearts. Love is not pink and not simple – it has many different shapes and phases and is very different for different people. For me love is somewhat of a warm unexpected surprise: suddenly you can meet someone who makes your heart beat faster and your palms sweat, you start smiling like an idiot as soon as you see that person, you feel like flying and jumping and your brain is… well, not really functioning. I really hope that all of you have experienced or will experience BIG LOVE in your very own and special way!

And here are some nice words from the Bible about what love is:

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels,
but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

And if I have prophetic powers,
and understand all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains,
but have not love,
I am nothing.

If I give away all I have,
and if I deliver my body to be burned,
but have not love,
I gain nothing.

Love is patient and kind;
love is not jealous or boastful;
it is not arrogant or rude.

Love does not insist on its own way;
it is not irritable or resentful;
it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.

Love bears all things,
believes all things,
hopes all things,
endures all things.

Love never ends