Here's to scribble down some of my messy mood today. Truth be told I have a very quick-tempered and hard-to-deal-with friend. He's the one who is fixated on being the best of the grade, but most importantly, it's just to best his arch-enemy, another egocentric, self-righteous being, in his own right I guess. I have never liked the intensity that hangs around in the atmosphere when the enemy's name, I'll call him Dan, crops up in the conversation. By all accounts I know, all he receives is hatred, to be precise, abhorrence and detestation. Some tell the myth of his hiring someone to create a project for him to compete in the competition in which he winded up getting high prize. Others repeat the story of him cheating in exams, asking bluntly for scores boost without so much as dignity or self-respect. They just keep flying around in school, spreading like wildfire. With so many unpleasant and condemnatory myths around, I have truly never liked that Dan. Until today. Actually I know the power of love is transcendental but I never knew it would make people so magnanimous. I'm not in love with that Dan, of course, as you might think I am. The boy I'm in love with is a kind, generous, loving and considerate person who everyone wants to be with. He is definitely the ideal person I wanna put on a pedestal for the rest of my life. It was just a bustling, sweltering day of April when it dawns on me how much love can transform people. The story of Dan just randomly crossed my mind when I realise my hatred towards him was gone. Instead of portraying the guy as a self-centred being, unworthy of care and affection, I now view him in a different light, in fact, view everything in a different light. I saw him as a poor and love-craving being whose life has been lacking attention, so much so that he has to resort to dirty acts, stoop so low just to find something call 'love'. It turns out the most villainous people in the world, are just victims of their own sour life. Then, they do not need aspersions, they need empathy, but so many people fail to perceive that, even the person himself. I just hope poor Dan will one day see that his way of attention seeking has led him astray and got back to the right track. But my major point here is that love has remarkably altered my perception. Loving a big-hearted person makes you wanna be big-hearted. That has lent an invaluable answer to my nagging and persisting question: ' What is the role of love, from an evolutionary perspective?' I've been striving to gain insight into love for a while, and thought that: ' Is love just a trick of nature for us to reproduce and procreate'. I've learnt about the Ancient Greek story of humans once having 2 heads, 4 arms, 4 legs. It means that male and female co-exist in one body until one day they upset Zeus and were split into two. From then, every being became incomplete and had to find their other half, literally. I've never found any interesting logic in that. But truth has come to me in an unexpected surrounding: it's right. Without love, humans will feel incomplete and so evolution brilliantly invented it to help people find the person who will correct them and make them more adaptable by enhancing their mental world in noble way. For me, I'm forever grateful for the person I'm in love with, for he has transformed my mindset and brought so much sweetness to my grey, tedious and dull life. That's myself and the big question about the sacred love of humanity.
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