All about love!

That ethereal, surreal but true emotion

Beyond the realms of reason, rationality and Karl Popper’s influential scholarships on logic, there exists a world of defiance and passion that in effect makes this world a safer and beautiful place. It attempts to turn the ideal of co-existence into reality and makes our visit to this planet absolutely worth it despite catastrophes, calamities and carnages.

The phenomenon could simply be termed as the law of love.

This is almost true because so many Holy Scriptures and good story books of children also tell us that once upon a time there were Adam and Eve in a Neverland. They did not agree to what was ordained to them and instead blinded by strong sentiments for each other did what both of them wanted. That too against the will of Almighty! And like what most Almighties would obviously do when enraged, the Adam and Eve were sort of exiled from the Kingdom and wholly separated. The punishment of this love was their suffering and lifelong servitude. We are all known to be their progenies.

There is a recorded role of Satan as an instigator as well. However by all rational contexts if this were actually a feud between Satan and the only One, why Adam and Eve were to suffer at all? But then this is not from the world of complicated choices, epistemology or scientific falsification. It is also not about the sort of love for abstract notions and obsession with exclusive manmade ideologies. It is not even about the patriotism of real estates that could sometimes be confused as dying for nation states or all the more, strong feelings toward some of the homely relations that obviously have to be taken for granted. This is plainly about a straightforward conventional love – between a man and a woman, irrespective of their age, clan, faith or place.

So the first story of affection between Adam and Eve would in actuality go way beyond them. The basic instinct would almost be imbedded and well entrenched into the DNA of zillions of generations to come. The lives of the legendary couple would be lived again and again, and again, almost repetitively, in a powerful way, in all corners of the world and in an unstoppable fashion. So much so that in following them many individuals would become great epics and essential part of fascinating folklores.

Many others in love produced magnum opuses; some wrote finest literary materials; several compiled great sonnets; numerous composed majestic poetries; and so many made grand musical notes. The best one turned into a bard; the rich emperor would construct a white temple of love that became a wonder of the world; the tales of poor ones turned into bedtime stories that are told and retold every night to the kids; and even the very ordinary ones wrote mundane books like the one that would state that the love is as if a sentiment between individuals from two different planets, wherein one creation is from unexplored Mars and the other is from hot Venus.

Another myth that got so strengthened was that whenever a boy or a girl appears in this world, a newer and more refined love is born as well. This has all the necessary credence to it because such is the power of this emotion that every time someone would fall in for the other one, it will offer a momentous and fierce energy to struggle for something beyond them. Those in love at bare minimum try to be very strong in face of adversaries. They would conceive ideas to make all impossible possible. They are also supposed to craft strategies and think through the sort of resolves to live happy and joyous lives with their beloved companions for the rest of the times. They are also eager to take on all odds of the world and even challenge forces as powerful as state and society that mostly comes between the amorous souls to oppose them in a violent way.

The noble virtues of human kind would also stem from this disposition: to be compassionate and to live selflessly, if not forever then at least for many moments for the sake of others. And so this love, for ages, continues to be the juggernaut against expressions of those who are against it and remain a strong symbol of peace. This emotion is recurring and could sustain forever, possibly happen over and over again, and in many cases take place more than once in life. Even in instances when the endearment is not effectively materialised the experience itself is enough to produce the necessary ripples that makes the surroundings a better place.

To make this a nicer world, it is perhaps a good impulse for most to at least try to be really in love and fail rather than not trying at all and become easy prey to those who are against it. But who could possibly be against it? Because no one should at least be adverse to the idea of pleasure and bliss. Logically, the only possibilities are that those who have never been in love or those suffering from poverty of love could potentially be afraid of its power. So then many from amongst the heirs of Adam and Eve were also destined to be the haters. They would take the veil of custom to outcast those in love and forcefully make them either wear alphabets or take refuge in faith and create images like rebranding the home of legendary Heer into a petrified town of hate.

In the end, the real fight in this world, in many ways, is between those who believe in love and those who do not. The human tendencies are guided by the primary impulses. If anyone were found to be in true love he/she would cherish it and necessarily try to produce its results around in society and amongst peers through conduct, candour and civility. The tranquility and peace is merely a state of mind that haters can never accomplish. It is pity not to have experienced this sentiment properly. At my end, the bird in town is probably still so frowned.

The writer is a lawyer based in Lahore and can be reached at [email protected], Twitter: @LegalSubtleties