Forgotten Dairies
Did You Know Love is War? -By Abdulrasheed Akere
Many had been served love breakfast— breakup which collected tears from their eyes’ lacrimal gland, some may even end up moaning and cursing the day they met their ex-lovers while some will proclaim furiously that they won’t engage in a relationship anymore. Likewise war always ink sad scars on people’s mind, it’s very detrimental which makes one to frequently regret its inception
Lucky people often narrate their biography blissfully while other fragments of people’s stories are always melancholic. We may be born and breed in the same home but, we will grow up to diverse experiences at different intervals, this makes us an individual and varies in traits. If you hear some people’s success story, salutation together with congratulation will flourish from your heart to them, whereas if you are brainfeed with their love experiences, you will pity and sympathize their ordeals about love.
Being a successful rich man doesn’t guarantee a successful love relationship as both are inversely proportional, love duck, multitude of wealthy fellows often have relationship issues, this is enough to prove that love is a war. Usually, we promulgate that rich people have everything. It’s not the case in the love section because the person you crush on may be crushing on another person regardless of your riches or possessions. In this occurrence, people mumble that love is blind, stupid, fool, etcetera but the fact is that love is a battle that one has to conquer.
An English dictionary expatiates that love is an affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well being, meanwhile one of the objectives of war is to protect loved ones – Nigeria Army are there dying for the love of our people.
Also love is an intense caring for the existence of another, a profound attention towards someone, it’s only those who you love that you will go to a war in order to secure their existence and survival. In some circumstances, one have to run katakata, run kitikiti to earn money to finance love, to avert the love from losing joy.
In other way round, searching for a soulmate is sometimes warful, in the sense that the person you adore may also be the prayer point of several individuals, so one has to put in extreme efforts to attain the desire. Jocularly, we have witnessed a phenomenon where men fight over a woman and vice versa, have you now agree with me that love is a war.
Numerous people’s minds are saddled with scars from love bites as a result of hurt caused from their love experiences. Many had been served love breakfast— breakup which collected tears from their eyes’ lacrimal gland, some may even end up moaning and cursing the day they met their ex-lovers while some will proclaim furiously that they won’t engage in a relationship anymore. Likewise war always ink sad scars on people’s mind, it’s very detrimental which makes one to frequently regret its inception
Conclusively, peculiar to how people die at war, we have seen people that died for love. Many endeavor to risk their lives in dreadful, cruel and dangerous incidents for the sake of love, it may be for peace just like some war motives are to make peace reign but, it may end up in pieces.
About the writer: Abdulrasheed Akere is a 300 level student of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto (UDUS). He can be reached via abdulrasheedabdulkareem01@gmail.com.
