Monday, 5 April 2010
Beautiful Imperfections
Falling in love is relatively easy, but staying in love is not. Sometimes we think that the ‘happily ever after’ feeling marks the end of our journey, but as one writer puts it: ‘True love never lives happily ever after, for true love has no ending.’
We applaud couples for showing such commitment and tenacity to their relationships despite their young age. Their relationships are not perfect. They have their fair share of different situations, heartaches, and personality clashes, but they have not thrown in the towel.
There seems to be a growing trend among young couples to break up and move on to someone new when they face conflict or hardship in their relationship. However, finding someone else to fall in love with is not the best idea. It can lead to a long trail of broken hearts and no one wiser for it. If that same attitude is brought into marriage, we can expect the rate of divorce cases to go up.
Instead, choose to brave the storms and work out your issues together, and you might find yourselves learning a lot about each other through the process. No one is perfect. If you are not perfect, chances are that your partner will not be perfect too.
True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.