Love is all you need?

David Santos Martinez

“All you need is love,” someone tells you when you get home. You look tired, stressful, and it seems like you are a prisoner of your own routine. Despite being unhappy with such a way of life, you keep waking up every morning at the same making no difference in any of the aspects that characterize your monotonic daily schedule: from bed to work, from work to home (or to school in the case you have children). Once at home, an inconceivable variety of chores are waiting for you: ironing, cooking, cleaning… And when you have finished all of them, you realize that you must go to bed immediately because tomorrow, as always, you have to get up early.

Imagine this happening at an unbearable pace / rhythm at least five days a week, and more than nine months every year. Well… wait! You don’t have to imagine it. You are living it! Because the truth is that nowadays we are so concerned about completing our commitments that we have even forgotten about ourselves. And as this is so, that when you hear “All you need is love” from someone who is standing in front of you just after you opened the door, you actually don’t consider the importance of the sentence, but you think “Get out of my way, I have a lot of things to do.” But alas, you do need love.

Love is, in most cases, the spark that makes our lives happier and unique. Love can be the light that will show you a different exit when you are surrounded by darkness. The problem is that there is no global formula for love, it is, as many feelings, a very personal thing.

Now some people will admit “Ok, I need love, so what?” If we were more attentive to our environs instead of concentrating so much on that dot that has turned out to be our life, then we would be able to see that there are lots of people around us trying to “give” us love, but, surprise, surprise, unconsciously, we don’t let them. A girl in the bus that is asking you the time, the man at the newspaper shop that asks you how are you doing, your children, your partner… and like these, hundred of examples. But we just answer with a monosyllable (yes, ok, ten o’clock, good, fine…) and then we submerge our minds again in the routine. So, as you can see, the authentic dilemma is not a lack of “sources” of love (because, to be honest, as another song wisely says: “Love is in the air”) but that we, so worried to fulfill tasks that keep us stressed, do not accept / perceive other people’s love for us.

 

As a result, I hope that the next time you feel your world is coming crashing down, you will just relax and you will wonder what is really going on, because, possibly, all you need is love. If not, don’t worry, “take” it anyway for the reason that love is probably one of the most effective “revitalizers” / medicines in the world, and, in addition, there is no problem if you exceed the dose.