You see, my people! This word called ‘love’ had been given
different definitions and expressed in ways we won’t delve into right now. It
is not certain we could pick up a dictionary to know what love is. Love is
feeling and so those who wrote or compiled the dictionary would have had
diverse feelings to give their various definitions.
To you reading this piece, what does love means to you? Do not try to deceive yourself of the ‘lust’
you are into right now; many girlfriends, sugar mummies; many boyfriends, sugar
daddies. Nah! Love is more than that, more than just mere lust or playing on
others’ feelings.
The caresses of the water spurting out from the rock, the
pressure of it against the rock and the coolness it gives to the rock are often
amiable and could be seen as the love between the rock and the water.
The love of
mother-nature towards its (most specifically) human inhabitant are also
laudable. The sun shining brightly but with intended belligerence in its own
stupidity on the human skin to dazzle it, hurt it or keep it warm is also one
meaning of love.
The love between a mother and a child cannot be
overemphasized. As the mother, no matter how angry she might be during the
difficult upbringing of a child, would always love her child even when he/she
steps on her most delicate nerve.
In the beginning of the world, after the first six days or
so, God in his infinite goodness and total love made Adam and removed Eve from
his ribs – to give man a love that would never depart from him. Though, God
knowing fully well he was not like man in every nature, - might not have
satisfied man to always be his love, even when he’ll never stop loving his own
creations.
Perhaps, he knew his supremacy-of-love to be above what man
would require as a close mate, - and gave him a man of his kind, which they
could both share whatever nature of love (deceit) with each other.
The type of love
exhibited by Adam and Eve, might have been genuine as the very second varying
type of love after God’s love but if I were permitted to say it, - was a stupid
love (may God forgive me), because Adam being the first to be created out of
them two and the first to receive instructions against the forbidden fruit of
the tree of bad and evil; - should not have collected the fruit from his wife
Eve (women sha!). But out of the genuine love shown in plain ‘mumuciousness’ by
Adam, they were both cursed forever and lost the privilege of God’s love, even
as he hasn’t stop loving them.
If that type of love still exist in the world today, the
world would have been a better haven of love. The prevalent case is the
opposite, -lust- filled in the world around us today, full of deceit.
Many young people now
interchange or misinterpret love with lust. The world has drifted far from the
world of true love. I remember vividly how our parents talked continuously
about the way love was, in their own time, - though we were not present then
and could not assert how true their stories might be, but could do nothing than
to accept and believe the world has really changed. Romeo and Juliet case of
love would be a more clarified and true meaning of what love should be as
compiled in history and told today. It would be very rare to see a true and
genuine love of such these days.
The type of love clamoured for is that which, when Boye is
about to run bankrupt, Bioye would stand by him till the very end, - not one
that sees her boyfriend/husband running into empty ‘can’ (pun not intended),
and leave for another man reigning in affluence at the spur of that moment.
Adefemi, Zainab, Fatimah, Izuchukwu, Lazarus, Bola, Kazeem,
and other colleagues the story would bring forth their characterization seemed
to be overwhelmed by their last day in the Junior Secondary School not knowing
what the future holds for them (particularly in their Senior School); their
changing feelings from ordinary friendship into relationships would threaten
not only their performances in academics but also their life in all facet.
Miss Funmi, and Miss Yemisi, the youth corps’ love for a boy
of 14; - Femi, who was young in mind and didn’t know what love by these
teachers’ meant.
Mr. John and his colleague,
NYSC student-teachers, would never forget in their life their experience/s in
the Business study class.
These and many other characters and themes are set on edge
if you, my readers would permit me in my amateurish style of writing to present
them to you as they come into mind and through inspiration, words of
encouragement, comments, corrections and constructive criticism (the 3 C’s) as
I’m just learning the trade of being a better and informed writer. This would
also be the first story I would tell in the eyes-of-god/God narrative technique
or as famously called the omniscient point of view/narration, so it might be a
bit new to me but I would try to adjust the little I can in this technique as I
learn more.
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