The bridge of locked love

It is truly amazing how many people want to lock up their love. In one spa town in my country, there is a bridge of love where couples lock their love on the bridge fence with a padlock with their names written on them. They throw one key into the river and keep one for themselves. Every day new padlocks shine on this bridge fence. Young but also older couples come here to buy a padlock, write their names and lock their love in the hope that their love will be happy and last forever. But is it enough for a long and happy love to buy a padlock and lock it on the bridge fence? Certainly not.

While there are more and more examples of disrespect between love partners, on the other hand, there are more and more padlocks. The padlocks have begun to be a serious burden on a bridge that is in danger of collapsing. When the architect designed this bridge many years ago, he did not even dream that the bridge would have this purpose. He thought that it would only connect the two banks of the river like any other bridge. But over time, this bridge became very special.

We live in an insecure world of insecure people who doubt themselves and others. That is why we feel the need to make things safe. I wonder what it would look like if the feelings were really locked? Would we be calm, happy, and content? I'm not sure. I think that everything that is locked can be unlocked too. There is a couple who locked their love with a lion's claw. For those who don't know what a lion's claw is, it's a mechanical car security device, a protection system. I guess their love is so great that a simple padlock was not enough for them. 😊

Since the bridge is overloaded, a certain number of padlocks are removed from time to time. They are not thrown away but kept so that one day a bust of the famous poet who wrote beautiful love poems could be poured out of that bronze.

It is not known how much love has been preserved and how much has been "unlocked". Some couples came to this place to unlock and remove the padlock because they were no longer in love. It’s fascinating that people act as if they really have locked something in. There is a well-known case of an old man who asked for help in finding the padlock with which his granddaughter locked the love between her and her boyfriend. He intended to unlock the padlock because he thought that boy was not good for his granddaughter and that they should separate. 😊

Despite the unlocking and removal of these padlocks, their number does not stop growing. There are more and more of them every day.

Respect your partners. It is the only way to lock your love, and you will not need a padlock.

Thank you very much for reading.

The article and the images are original and mine.