Learnings on L-O-V-E

People celebrate Valentine's Day today. Flowers, chocolates and wines abound. Love songs and romantic movies are all around. Even the news media are well-saturated with topics on love.

Not to mention the anticipated traffic in areas where motels thrive. And the new designs of lingerie in malls. Well, that's one way of celebrating "love."

But then what is love?

Since childhood, I have heard so many sayings or quotes about love: "Love is like a rosary, full of mystery," "love is blind," "love hurts." Love has a lot of definition, but not one can encapsulate all experiences pertaining to it.

So, in celebration of Valentine's Day, I would like to share with you my four hard-earned personal learning about love:

1. "Love is not a feeling. Because feeling is deceiving, and love is NOT deceiving." (Learned on February 20, 2003)

2. "After all the anger and pain, only love remains."(Learned on September 2009)

3. "Love drives an intelligent and smart woman to the limits of logic and rationality. Love challenges sanity. Being in love is being insane, irrational, illogical. Loving is living and dying at the same time." (Learned on October 18, 2010)

4. "Love is like the universe that keeps on growing and growing. The more you explore, the more you discover... and the more you realize that there are still so much more to learn." (Learned on February 10, 2012)