Love Begets Love

You are happy to know that your past love had been
there for you in times of distress. You knew it so well that despite situations
before and just like any young love where people part ways, you are someone
whom they will never forget. You are someone whom they will want to have for
life, for friendship maybe in times that each, including you, has already been
walking through one’s own path of life. For your past, you were once their
original oil painting, and never a second best print.

Yes, as they say, do not regret to love intensely
because no matter what happens, you will always be remembered. You will just be
surprised that in times of need, that someone whom you loved with all of your
might will be there to redeem you from an ugly situation. Then with this, you
realize that with all those character attacks or even complaints that you hear
from them which are addressed directly to you, you are just someone that they
had an extremely hard time to forget, throughout these years. Why not? When all
your strength had been given to love? You are someone very emotional, then it
is already expected in your end to love more than others know love. But things
change. As how they cannot forget you, you feel otherwise. You want them in the
attic as how a wall painting that has been part of your memories is kept. Loving is emotionally draining which is
something that you do not want anymore to happen in your life despite the
search of who will be the right man for you which takes place amid your
interest over the idea of soulmate. But not in a chance that you regret a
single moment during the time you were loving. It is true that when you love a
person, you do not see what have you been giving to him emotionally as long as
you see him and he stays by your side. And yes, it is emotionally draining
until such time that you wanted to break free from this so-called emotional
attachment. In fact, you once thought that a no-strings attached relationship
may be interesting. But then, knowing yourself you know that at the end of the
game, you are the one losing because, as usual, you have already given in to
love. That is madness, you think! You,
having close to 40 should have already mastered emotional detachment to a love
partner. You, who have already been complete by just being you with a partner who
sees himself as a whole had no chance to be a better half to each other. That
simple!

But in such a case, you then think of what’s the
relationship for? One can only tell, perhaps, once she tries. But giving it a
shot will take a quite deal of mind-setting just as how a non-artist will first
attempt to create an original oil painting.

Attraction to Love or Never

Can heart be dictated? Love cannot develop without strong
attraction between two people. It is not just about being physical but attraction
that cannot be explained. Maybe attraction comes from the meeting of the minds
or each has strong desire for some values which so happened are present to
both. Attraction just like love itself cannot be fathomed easily. Each might
have seen the best of Asian art in each other’s eye.

But how about love without no foundation at all? How about
for a given period of time, there is still no attraction or liking to each
other, at least, is taking place? Will love develop? Friendship may begin to
but friendship is different when two people fall in love. It may be possible
though but love may take a while to see how each is meant for the other. This why we keep wondering as to how pre-arranged marriage work because in some Asian cultures, this still exists.

There are requirements that a person needs to meet before he or she can be a
good match to the other one. It is just like an exchange of artworks for sale
between families. And we ask, where is the love? However, we still believe in
the long run that love begets love. This one is tried and tested over time. The
caveat is there should be at least one in the couple who is madly in love with
the other one. There is no other thing to offer for love but love itself. This,
for the other one to respond, may take sometime. But loving without expecting
anything in return is a feat that will surely reap rewards. Such love, at
times, may mean to the extent about loving without self-respect. It may not be
orchestrated to manipulate emotion but reactions to emotion naturally flow with
the bearer unconscious of it. May love
not give up. However, without any of the two persons being attracted or being
in love to the other, love may find it hard to find its way because there is no
heart where it can at least settle to take its rest when things become too
exhausting and demanding.

Love is wonderful if only it will be felt by two people with
sincerity to handle it well. However, it is love that dictates our moves.
Before we know it, there is already a story that is flowing without us being
even aware of it. And as per how and
when it will develop for two people who see no love to each other can really be
a big question like asking an abstract wall painting to speak up what meaning
it wants to convey.

Once a Vegetarian

You remembered the time you went vegetarian. It felt so good
to be that health conscious. You felt so light and because the mind worked for
fruits and vegetables, it seemed that the nutrition it provided for you doubled
from its original value. You love them just as how artists get hooked to them
as subjects in his wall painting.

Just like any typical person, you have been used to eating
meat and you were one of those who could not take the taste of vegetable. But
due to health problem, as per self-assessment there was a calling to watch out
for your health and one of the big leaps that you had to take was to eat
vegetables. And because you felt good with it, you started being obsessed to
vegetables along with their nutritional benefits. The bad part of it is that
you started having a feeling of disgust towards meat. You felt like throwing up
after. You felt guilty just having it atop the table. And everything went psychological
back then when it came to food, not to mention you needed to prepare two
different sets of food every meal because it was not just you who needed to eat
and not all with you were vegetarians. But then, you would never deny what
feeling being a health buff gave you. It felt like being the best of Asian art.
However, you thanked God from helping you to get rid of this obsession. Meat is
a healthy food and a balanced diet is the key to everything good when it comes
to health.

Moreover, there is a tendency to eat raw or just steamed
vegetables instead of making dishes out of these lest nutrients be washed away.
But for the health buff this is fun but to many, this is not the exact
definition of what delectable means. Definitely, it is not. But with the lightness
of feeling it gives, one will get addicted to being vegetarian. More you will
be hooked to it if you are too good to animals that you disgust the thought of
them being killed for your consumption. This is exactly one feels if he or she
is a practicing vegetarian and to loosen oneself up from these thoughts, a
balanced diet is always better. Yes as for artists, how about to include some
barbeque along with fruits and veggies in the wall painting!

Signs to Discern

Many things have been happening lately. Strange things are happening. Signs of wars
and other calamities have been a natural occurrence since time immemorial but
this time heavens are revealing too much for people to handle. Original oil
painting may find it hard to capture the revelation of such incidents.

It is not easy on the eyes to see fishes afloat the waters
or washed these tons away to the shore. And how about the rivers turning into
red, not to mention once in a while the moon becomes bloody red, as well! And
yes, there is one perfect and beautiful scenery among these ugly ones—the apple
storm in great Britain. Just imagine red lovely apples falling from the sky
while pestilence and infestation occur to many places. Must be a lovely sight
to behold! Obviously, all these have
scientific explanations.

The Creator will not put anything here on Earth that
is sourced from magic. He created the entirety of the universe to include
heaven and hell without using a magic wand. He did not cast a spell of
abracadabra. But he made it sure that human minds will have explanation to
everything on top of God’s mysterious ways to actualize the story that he wrote
a long time ago. His story is beyond any wall painting’s subject. It is beyond
the beauty of nature and what the material world can offer. Its plot is more
complicated than any complications one has. And of all the people He chose to
be attacked is the one He knows does not deserve to be because in her situation
will He works wonders.

The one He chooses is a person who runs to him instead of
blaming Him for ugly things that happen in her life. He is the one whom she
only trusts. And He is the one to back her up with all his might. The signs and wonders rest in His hands.

Never put the One who is above all to test lest the life He gives to mankind be
taken away in just a wink of an eye. Original oil paintings may look bright and
inspiring but not if there is too much death in the subject. Be the best you can be. Have faith in
oneself. Trust Him. And never scheme to inflict pain to anyone out of
bitterness. Otherwise, you see more of these signs until it hits you.

Faith for Life

Life will always be beautiful. Of whether the world will end
or will just simply continue, you can never do something more than thanking God
for giving us the chance to experience life. There are hurts along the way, but
more to them is a beauty that life itself offers. There are too many things in
life that are for free and one of these is faith—one which is stimulated when
you look at a soothing landscape painting.

Love may falter. Trust may not be possible. Things may look hopeless. But there is faith
that cannot be robbed off from you. Your faith to yourself and your faith to
the one who is the Highest of all will make you stand up from rough times. Just
the thought of God wanting to prosper you and not harm you is enough of
security to make anyone strive for what he wants. This is different from
positivity when positivity is just all about mind-setting or mind conditioning.
Faith is the one thing that matters to drive you to get what you want. Anything
that you desire with too much passion is what God place in your heart. From
there, faith works. You feel it there.

You feel it happening. You are in it, whatever that is! Faith moves mountains.
Faith is the key to have what you want in your hand. Stay with life. Have faith that everything works for your
favour despite orchestration of ugly situations to damage you. You may be one God’s perfect choice for His
plans because He has seen you grew up with faith in your heart. People see you
as always positive when in fact you know it is not the real deal of it but
faith. People see you negative at times because they cannot simply discern which
is reality from negativity or which is negativity from humility. Everything
looks like an abstract wall painting when faith is lacking.

The thought of God wanting to prosper everyone should be a
driving force for people to achieve what they want. Such is already a hope that
everyone deserves a decent and beautiful lifestyle. What your heart desires,
you work for it because it is already there. It is already yours. If landscape
painting is what resides in your heart, do not go for sculpture.