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Monday, 11 August 2025

Love (3): The Force That Holds Us Together

Your grandmother waited for years before marriage.  She married a stranger and learned to love him.  You swipe left before someone even finishes saying hello.

Love is no longer a script passed down through generations.  The old way was simple: meet through family, and marry for life.  That page has turned.

Today, love is experiment and rebellion.  In some places, couples cohabit unmarried. Elsewhere, it's punished for crossing boundaries of caste, creed, or theocracy. 

"Till death do us part" has become "as long as this works."  60% of young adults now prioritize personal growth over marriage, asking: Can we love without losing ourselves?

Beyond Romance:
Without love, we're capable of anything.  With it, we're capable of everything.  But love was never just about romance.  The deeper question isn't who you're with.  It's whether you still believe people deserve care. 

Every act of violence begins when love runs dry.  Every cruelty starts when we stop seeing another as human.  Every war ignites when we forget, we belong to each other.

Universal love is the stranger who helps us up, the quiet force that keeps a fractured world from falling apart.  It's what makes us human and keeps us humane.

The Heartbeat of Life:
Why do we love at all?  Because isolation kills faster than disease.  Because hope needs someone to share it with. Because love is what keeps us alive and connected - like the mother who waits up, the partner who forgives, the neighbor who checks in, the stranger who smiles.

Your Choice:
In this fractured age, universal love isn't automatic.  It's a conscious choice to see, to care, and to stay soft in a hardening world. Romantic love may stir the heart. Universal love holds it steady.

The real question: 
In a world losing faith, will you still choose to love, care, and share?

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