We are all in Love.

Earlier today, I was having a chat with @Aimure I told him I am out of ideas on what to write today, he suggested that I write about my favourite quote and that suggestion made me remember a quote I coined from my personal beliefs. The quote goes :

"A life without Love isn't worth living, and Love without sacrifice is non-existent."

~DocLayla.

The above quote pretty much sums up my beliefs and what every action I take is based upon. For me, Love covers a much wider scope than what most people see it as. For me, our very existence on earth is based upon Love.

Having beliefs and values is very necessary, without them, we'd be like individuals roaming and doing things pointlessly on the surface of the earth. Those who have no beliefs or are yet to identify their values find little or no meaning in this life, and just live it as it comes.

For me, Love means doing things for yourself, for others, or for God for the sole purpose that you want to make them happy. We all have those people who are the most important in our lives, for those people, their happiness means more to me than others, and so it goes.

"A life without Love isn't worth living..."

The first part of the quote means can be explained as "a life without something worth living for isn't worth living". If you truly love something, you'd live for it and if need be, die for it. For me, the Ultimate Love is God's Love. God's Love is what keeps our existence moving,the very moment it ceases is the very moment we cease to exist. If you feel you don't love anything that much, take some time and think about that thing you truly cannot live without, once you've discovered that then attach meaning to it and let your actions favour the thing you love. Basically, what I mean by Love, with a capital "L" in the first part of the quote is God's Love, without which I am nothing.

"... Love without sacrifice is non-existent."

Basically, Love and sacrifice are the same thing, the seperation is made just so we would appreciate more the importance of sacrifice in love, unlike some instances where people declare their love without the willingness to sacrifice. If you aren't willing to sacrifice for the things you love, then you never loved them in the first place. People who declare love for other people and then go about hurting them do not love them, don't let anybody tell you otherwise.

Well that's not the only instance. Everytning in life is based upon sacrifice, or at least when you think of it in that terms, it makes more sense.

Let's say you're a guy who'd love to lose weight and get shredded. These are things that do not just happen, they require consistent rigorous exercises over a long period of time to achieve. Along the way, there would be so much pain, giving up unhealthy foods, lots of endurance, lots of patience and lots of exercise for you to achieve that goal. All these are all examples of sacrifices. Maybe you like junk food but you made the sacrifice to quit it so that you can become fit, which you love. As you continue with the exercises and start seeing results, your optimism increases and so does the love for it, as the love it increases, so does the willingness to make sacrifices.

The more we truly love something, the more we're willing to sacrifice for it. The more you love your body, the more you will be willing to sacrifice for it(in the case of the fitness example).

A student goes to school, study hard and sacrifices his leisure, his play, his sleep and his friends because he wants to achieve his dreams of becoming whatever he wants to be. Why does he study so much? Maybe he wants to make money so that he would help his family, why? Because he loves them.

This applies to negative situations as much as it applies to positive situations. Imagine a person killing his fellow human beings because of money, that simply shows that his love for materialistic gains have surpassed his humanity, which means that he loves money so much that he can sacrifice human beings to get it. He loves money so much that he's willing to do ritual killings. He loves money more than his health that's why he's willing to sacrifice his kidney. It's simple, not so hard to understand.

Seriously everything burns down to Love. Whatever you do in this life, you're doing it because of love, even if you don't love the particular thing you're doing, you're doing it because it will help someone you love. Your present self doesn't like working out, but your future self will be thankful for the effect, your present self doesn't like studying, but your future self will be thankful for the results of studying, you don't like hustling for money, but you do it anyways to help those you love, that's sacrifice.

It's that simple. I am sure if you look closer, you'll see that all your actions are based upon two things : Love and Sacrifice.

So guys, let's love the right things so that we sacrifice doesn't hurt those we claim to love.

Thanks for reading.

Yours Layly,

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