Today is the day for
lovers, for people who have chosen to share their hearts in a way that
is highly complicated and at the same time emotionally straightforward.
This is not only a day for couples; it's a day for those who have been
able to love others besides themselves. Today is a day for, simply, the
emotion of LOVE.
For some of us, it's a
day to please our partner by buying a present and going out for a
romantic dinner, but this is just the commercial
side.
This day should be the
day to thank those who have always loved us, always existed within us
and always tried to understand us. It's a day to open the treasure box,
look at the good things inside and thank those who have filled the box.
About four or five years
ago I saw a movie that was about two professors who were very talented
in their work but not so talented in their emotions. After a couple of
long conversations, they decide to unite their lives just to try to fill
their emotional emptiness. And then, after a long story, they fall in
love, and define love: "We all want to fall in love. Why? Because that
experience makes us feel completely alive, where every sense is
heightened, and every emotion is magnified. Our everyday reality is
shattered and we are flung into the heavens.
It may only last a
moment, an hour, or an afternoon, but that doesn't diminish its value,
because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our
lives.” (From the movie "The Mirror Has Two Faces.")
Love is a very big part
of our lives; in its absence, we search for it everywhere. Then when we
find it, we try to not lose it. When we get used to it, we start to
judge whether it's real or not. If it is real, we try to unite it with
ourselves and devote our whole life to treasuring it. If it's not, we
try to leave it, which is never easy if it was real in the past. So,
love is always hiding in us. It's just trying to find the right time and
the right way to get out and fill us with these different feelings.
I hope today will be
excellent for those who have real love in their lives. For those who do
not, I hope one day they will find love and will have enough to treasure
for their future.
Have a good “Lovers’ Day”...
Sýla Türkü Kural (EE/IV)
turku@ug.bilkent.edu.tr
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