Here the true happiness: to love and be loved!
Love is not genetically transmitted from your ancestors such as beauty, eye colour, strength and talent are. It cannot be inherited as the fortune of your rich uncle. I cannot be bought with money, on the contrary, richness is a huge drawback for love, because often, rich people are loved for what they have and not for what they are. Love can be achieved only through personal effort. It can also be received as a gift, but unless appreciated this gift will be soon taken from us.
Scientists wondered in the ’60 “Why nature chose for humans such an inconvenient and unproductive reproduction mean? Why are there two different genders?” They couldn’t find the answer but certainly “God create men and women to love one another” so that people would complement and love each other. Without love, man cannot be happy.
Love is not genetically transmitted from your ancestors such as beauty, eye colour, strength and talent are. It cannot be inherited as the fortune of your rich uncle. I cannot be bought with money, on the contrary, richness is a huge drawback for love, because often, rich people are loved for what they have and not for what they are. Love can be achieved only through personal effort. It can also be received as a gift, but unless appreciated this gift will be soon taken from us.
Love is the only true value, all the rest come only for a short period of time. “People of all ages are summited to love”: indeed, children, adults, elderly people, all of them are capable of love and this brings people true joy. Both faith and trust are manifestations of love. We believe in God because we love Him, we believe in the person we love and we trust that he loves us too.
Without love, not even the richest man will be happy on this world. Even if at some point he feels comfortable, is content and thinks he will live without love as well, there will come a time when he will understand that he is poor and unhappy because nobody loves him. Money, factories and all his goods, the rich man will never take them with him in the eternity while love will always last.
The British writer James Herriot, who was also a vet, describes a farmer with a modest financial condition, sitting in his small kitchen, surrounded by his wife and children, in a loving environment saying “You know, I am now happier than any king! Here’s the true happiness: to love and be loved!”
(Translated from Pr. Pavel Gumerov, El şi ea: în căutarea armoniei conjugale, traducere din limba rusă de Adrian Tănăsescu Vlas, Editura Sophia, București, 2014, pp. 69-70)
