Amor Vincit Omnia

Still as busy as hell… So I won’t be talking much. I’m posting below a piece I won way back as a Valentine essay. Enjoy it and have a Happy Velentines Day, everybody!!!!

We mortals do anything for love. We do the unbelievable, we go beyond limits and extremities, and will even move mountains (even how silly or stupid that sound) just to follow this force than even Isaac Newton himself agree to be “More powerful than gravity”.  

But how do we prove that love conquers all? Let’s count the ways:

Dido renounced Carthage for Aeneas, Agamemnon waged a bloody ten-year war against Troy for Helen and Mark Anthony defied the Roman Empire for Cleopatra.  

Inspired by the flair reminiscence of the 1001 Arabian Knights, The prince of Kuwait spent Two million dollars on a weeklong dining and carousing in a dome built for 20,000 people when Princess Salima (the most gorgeous girl in the middle East that time) agreed to marry her in 1980. King Edward IV, gave up his throne 105 days after his ascension into it to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson. The law prohibits a monarch to marry divorcees so Edward, choosing love over being king, left the royalty to be with the woman from the land that never sleeps. He was later made governor of the Bahamas by his brother who succeeded him to the throne.  

Love, as they say, comes in the most unexpected situation. It drops to us mortals like say, a pot, or a safe from the 20th floor. It defies logic, it resists conventionalism and even enable people want to not see the truth about the people they love (Hence the saying “love is blind”?). Note how this people found love (or how love found them):
  

New York Columnist Mark Rither was in a city’s elevated train late for an appointment. Knowing he cannot do anything about it, he relaxed and sit next to a young lady. While traveling, he started talking to her. They got along so well that when the train reached City Hall stop, they disembark and got married.

Thomas Edison, the inventor who gave us the phonograph and the light bulb, was 56, already bug-eyed and suffering from dandruff and halitosis when he proposed marriage to a lady half his age. Edison proved that love needs no words. While walking along a sea boulevard, he took her hand and tapped his proposal to her palm—in Morse code. Luckily, the young woman knew the code and tapped back a three letter word—“Yes”.

Samuel Clemens (better known as Mark Twain, author of such classics as “The adventures of Tom Sawyer” and “Huckleberry Finn”) was on an ocean cruise when he came across a portrait of a young woman—model Olivia Langdon. Stricken by her beauty, he enquired about her, arranged to meet her and later married her.
  
Countless stories, fables and legends were made and told in the name of this thing called love. Kingdoms burned, Empires fell, and wars were fought because of it. Even conquerors such as Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan fell on its knees. Mona Lisa, the world’s most expensive painting was made because Leonardo Da Vinci was inspired by love in the first place. Inventions were made and crusades were launched for its honor. In fact, it’s maybe (even how mushy it can be) just what made the whole world go round. Conquerors come and go, but love will always be there. Love then, is the real conqueror of all. And it won’t be called conqueror for nothing. For if we have it we conquer hate, we vanquish the evil, we surmount fear, we defeat failure and triumph over aversion. It clears the darkest of hearts and free incarcerated souls. And the most important thing is that it feels good as much, as it heals.

 :)