amo, ergo sum
Apr 29, 02:24 PM by Jimmy Sie
I’ve decided to change my blog site title to “amo, ergo sum”; means “I love, therefore I am”. Now it’s an very interesting subject, love, that is, isn’t it? One that has caused so much joy and suffering, depends on which side you’re in and which spectacles you’re looking at it with.
Well I’m no expert nor consider myself a great warrior of love. Though I’ve been a casualty of it for many times. Yet I believe it is the greatest thing that one should experience, behold, embrace and hold in possession for as long as one live. I’m not only talking about romantic love between men and women, but love for all mandkind.
To love is no easy task, it’s not a walk in the garden to many people. Perhaps I should remind all readers here, that “to love” is different from “to feel in love” or “to be in love”. This is the goal that I desire, to be able to love, despite all the hardships and pain it may bring; to be able to love still, even in the most difficult circumstances. It’s a learning journey for me, one that has been filled with much joy, as much as with tears, and it likewise it will always be.
I’m grateful though that I have a wonderful Master that I can follow as the perfect example. He’s none other than Jesus, my God and my saviour. In this journey to eternity, I hope I can learn as much as I can to follow His example, and most of all to love more, not with self-indulgence but to be able to fully experience all of it. The joy, the bliss, as well as the pain of sacrifice, the hurt of loving in a loveless world.
I love, therefore I am
I want to be able to say to myself
That at the end of this journey
At the door of eternity
That I have loved
Crazily, with all my heart
with all my soul and mind
That I have tasted
the feeling of rapture,
the bliss that it brings
And have embraced
the anguish, the sorrow
of loving someone whole-heartedly
For in this fleeting life
it is love that is worth pursuing
worth sacrificing
till victory is in my hand
at the end of my path
when i can enjoy the fruit of it
love in eternity . . .
