True Love

Once you are ready to be miserable just for that person, you can say that love is true. When you are ready to make sacrifices just for her happiness even if it means hurting you, this is what you call true love. In my opinion, there are two kinds of true love, one that is unrequited and one that is reciprocated.

The first one, love being unrequited doesn’t mean it’s not true. There are instances wherein they had the right kind of love but on the wrong person. There are stories about love triangles, the leading guy, leading woman and her childhood friend. The childhood friend tends to fall in love with the girl ever since but never had a chance to confess. When he finally tried to do so he finds out that her friend loves someone else who loves her as well. So he would just give way and let her friend be happy, even if it hurts him so much to the point where he would not want to fall in love again. For he wants to treasure his first love, because he knows he can never have her. This is also real for I believe that, for love to be true, you must never be selfish, you must not only think of yourself but think of how the other person feels as well. In this case he values his friend/ loved one better than his own feelings so he was ready to sacrifice his happiness if it means she can be happy even though it’s with another guy.

And the other one, the love being reciprocated. You can say that they are lucky for they have the right kind of love on the right person. Their love is true for both of them are ready to make sacrifices for each other and be ready to face any problems that will arise and try to interfere with their relationship. But no matter what happens, they will still stand up together and love each other forever. Such trivial things can never let them break up but instead it will strengthen their bond for them to be able to face greater trials in the future. Just like Psyche and Cupid, even though Psyche’s sisters tried to ruin their relationship, they were able to overcome it and were able to go against Venus just to protect their love for each other. It also proved how much they love other for Psyche was ready to do anything just so Venus can approve of her as her daughter in law. Cupid was also there to forgive her and back her up when he knew she can’t do it alone.