“Love doesn't put food on the table"
This is a very popular phrase among people, who want to belittle what the concept of love is really about. Please allow my gullible self to interpret my understanding of this phrase.
The love I know is one that wants the best for another; it always seeks to make the next thrive at the expense of its own. Was it not love that woke up our parents at dawn to go work an 8-5 so that we can be afforded the privileges of being backpackers? Was it not love that propelled them to save money for us to get the best education they could only dream of? The Love I know is generous. It seeks to see others get what they need...
Maybe I'm too gullible to think that Love is what we need to get up and put food on the table. The love to pursue what keeps us awake at night and catches us in the light of day. The Love that sends a message using care-smile code and we respond with fulfilment. I know Love that woke up at 4am to go work at varsity as a cleaner, come back at 6pm using 93 to help me with home-work. I know love that sacrificed its own dreams so that I can pursue mine. The Love I know put food on the table...7 colours on a Sunday...
The love I know cannot stand the unsatisfactory look in the eyes of those it chooses to be upon. It says this with confidence "I love you and I will do my best to give you what you need". The love I know gets a second job to pay for lobola and marry its high-school sweetheart. It takes a loan to take its siblings to varsity. It puts its house as surety to fund the business it so believes will succeed. That's the love I know. The one that will do anything to make sure that there's food on the table...7 colours on a Sunday...
Before you say Love doesn't put food on the table, think about who you are, what you've achieved and the sacrifices that were made, and tell me if Love was not the driving force that made all of that possible. If not, excuse my gullibility!
This is my most favourite post, this is honest, transparent and just awesome, i now realise that when i look at all the sacrifices our parents made, we realise that this love compels us to want to make sure, our parents live like queens after we finish school. i realise that some of the decisions my mom made were critical for me to reach the place tha i am now, had she now made the decision she did, i would be in a different place right noe, but she decided that she will do everything she could that i should be able to get the education she never got. i love this. Well done.
ReplyDeleteA great read, I love Love!
ReplyDeleteThis is good......really good
ReplyDeletewell, u call it love! others may call it circumstances. others may just simply call it responsibility! Doing what NEEDS to be done.
ReplyDeleteWow Wow Wow, I'm sold indeed love does put food on the table
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ReplyDeleteAH! That topic of love!
ReplyDeleteNever underestimated the power of it, even during the times of growth!
Love this one friend, somehow makes me "hungry", haha with 7 colours on a sunday! (Excuse the pun)
This is a good read, one that many people need to come across because your message here is beyond the surface. Its absoultley stunning!
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ReplyDeleteI LOVE THIS!!! Its so powerful!
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