The love of my life vs the loves of my life.
I have only one love of my life, the eros love, the romantic love, the only man in my life right now and hopefully (though I decided already that he will be) in my remaining lifetime. Yet I can also say that I have also many loves of my life. The loves of my life are my family, close friends, passions and things I love like my books.*
Most certainly, there will be no reader of this blog for now or some few later (unless I am blessed with another miracle, the first is the love of my life, haha) but as always, I write first for myself and hopefully along the way, fatefully or accidentally, someone will read this and feel like he/she can relate on some of the things I wrote and will write here. Better, if they will be able to use (in a good way) what they can read here. However, I have a separate blog for my academic endeavors. You can check out lablynnyvettebautista.blogspot.com for that.
This is not my first blog** but this blog will be more intimate, interesting and enjoyable. That is the goal.
This blog is also a continuation of a love I put on hold for a while. Writing has always been a one-sided love for me. I love writing but it doesn’t really love me. However, I feel like it will eventually learn to love me and one day I will get my reward for patiently waiting. Good thing, reading reciprocated my love. ***
I decided to use the singular title ang lab ko/my love instead of ang labs/my loves cause most probably I will write more about him and us. Though there is a great possibility I will also write about the other things I love here. Animate and inanimate.
Loving someone does not and should not make you stop loving other people (family, friends) you love unless you love another man/woman the way you should only love the love of your life, then that is different. Loving someone and being love in return, helps me to be a better person and inspires me to do the things I love to do and more. Most importantly, true love doesn’t make you stop loving yourself. Love is such a great blessing when you can feel, say, hear, taste, and see how much you are being love. ***
Love has given me so much happiness. However, please do not expect that this blog will be filled with over positivity. I am not in love with over positivity. Over positivity is not genuine for me. I hope to inspire and perspire. I am romantic yet realistic. Love entails some pain or hardship sometimes yet hate is different. I can only hope that I will not encounter haters or bashers here. HATE and HATERS are not WELCOME.
As I end my first entry, I just want to share that I have always believe that we get the love we deserve. The love we choose. The love we work hard for. Love takes time, patience, kindness and yes all the ingredients needed is reminded to us in one of our favorite bible verses:
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails.
It is not only applicable with the romantic love of our lives but to everyone we love and everything we love..and love to do.
Love doesn’t end.
But LAB’s first post ends here.
Till I write again…
*I did not mention myself cause that is a given already. Self-love is a must. Can never give what you never have right? Arggh. Cliche but 100% true. Haha.
**Anglabko is a new blog I created but it is also a reincarnated version 2.0 of anglab.tumblr.com
***To my dear engineer, who reciprocated my love too. You give me love, inspiration and more. Special thanks to you. I know you will read this as my number one fan. Haha. I love you.
Ang Lab Ko 