VIRUS?

Love? each time I would ask people around me to define love,
I would either get a positive answer or a negative one, which is which their definition of love is something that they believe on. Francisco Balagtas once quoted “O pag-ibig na makapangyarihan, hahamakin
ang lahat masunod ka lamang” a quote that makes me smile and nod
my head in agreement. Sometimes I am left hanging with questions
in my mind about what love is, the real definition of love?
“Love is kind, Love is patient, it is not envious?”
“Love conquers all” Marianne Hailey once said.
“Love is katok, that enters your tok-tok and makes your heart tibok-tibok” my classmate once answered
when I was still in first year high school. Sometimes we just tend to question ourselves to the value and meaning of this so called virus
that spreads in each individual. A virus that each and every individual would long to have, and would not want to have it treated, instead
they would long to have the virus and would even long to have it
more severe.

When I first saw him, he was a man who would never
smile, nor talk to even say hi or hello. He was a snob, a weird and undefined person. I could not even picture who he is or figure out
who this guy is. Weird and I never wanted to get acquainted with
him at all, until the circumstances pushed me to love him and get
to know him more, right there and then I had another definition
for love. A definition that would always make me smile and make
my heart beat faster. Although I still would consider the others
definition of love, I would say that the feeling of love comes from
above. Unexpected phenomena which gives each individual the panorama of things unseen and only felt by the heart. I could still
recall how I became head over heels in love with him without
even knowing any valid reason for my action.

Some people would tend to post in their blogs, in their facebook
notes or friendsters’ bulletin board about a certain topic
“who is your ideal bf/gf?” I find it corny and crazy to answer
such surveys because I feel it is boring to answer or read articles
about love. Each time people would ask me to write about love
I would always turn them down and say no, but funny isn’t it that
today I am writing about love. I feel weird since this is my first
article for the said topic. Nevertheless, going back to my inquiry
about answering the survey posted in different networking sites
about “Ideal bf/gf” I tried to scan through the different answers
of my friends who took time to answer the survey. Questions
such as “musician or not?” tall or short?” “dark, fair, or white?”
“singer or dancer?” “cook or sports oriented?” “computer addict
or computer fanatic?” with piercing or tattoos?” and many more questions. I was bored and exhausted just looking at their answers
so what I did was I commented and said “Basta SIYA” and I was shocked to have 5 or more people who liked my post.

Later they asked me to explain to them why the answer, all I said
was. “I don’t care anymore about such things, because I love him
the way he is, and I love him for everything that pertains to him. Including the things that he does not have, I still love him.
Everything about him is special to me. I accept him for who
he is and for who he is not. I accept him for who he is and for what
he will become for the years to come” They were smiling to
my answer and there is only one thing they told me.

“UY! AGBLUBLUSH ISUNAJ talagas inlove.”

I would always fall in love with him, whoever he is,
because he is the reason for some beautiful changes
in my life, he is the reason why I smile each morning
and would still manage to smile in the evening when
I sleep. I love him so much that losing him would mean
losing my life too. I love him so much that I can’t live
another day without him in my life. I love him so much
that each time I think of him, my mind goes head over
heels, my students would tend to question and tell me
“Ma’am nainlolove ka met” and I would just smile and
nod, I can’t say anything because as it’s true. I’m so in
love with him.

Love, a virus, a virus, much worse than any other virus
we could ever have. Love. Love. Love. It really makes
people go crazy, it really makes people do extra
ordinary things that they do not do at all, it makes people
smile with no reason. as people would always say:

“NU NAINLOVE KAN,
AG START KAN NGA MABAGTIT”
Mental ka ba?
Kase nababaliw na ako sayo.
Tumatangkad ka ata ah?
Kase noon nasa puso lang kita,
ngayon nasa isip na din kita.