Discourse on True love

(N.B: I acknowledge that the narration of the story lacks the art of storytelling. The intention of this early post is for discussion purpose.)

Jenny felt in love for the first time at the age of 15 in her high school.  The boy name was Romeo. He was the one she had been waiting all her life, she thought, and they were both deeply in love. At 17, she dumped her first love for another boy who looks like Leonardo Di Capro. This boy name was Jimmy, the boy every girl in college is crazy after. They were fond of each other very much and they were glued together almost all the time. All her friends thought that Jenny had found her true love. But after 6 months, this time Jimmy dumped her for another girl.

At 18, she was wiser and decided to stay away from love and concentrate on her career. She kept her promise till her college graduation. At 22, in her master college, she felt the magic spell of love once again with her teacher. She knew deep down in her heart she truly loved this man and want to spend the rest of her life with him. But she didn't have the courage to tell the three magic words to her teacher. As time pass by, to her surprise she got a marriage card invitation from his teacher. Her teacher had tied the knot with another teacher of the college.

Time passes by and she finally finished her master degree. Back home she was confronted by her parent and her family for arrange marriage. The man name was John Goodman, a pastor of a local church. The pastor loved her so much and she knew this but she rejected him, probably he was not so attractive.

Finally at the age of 25, the happy day “happily ever after” came and she tied the knot with her new found love, Anthony, a business man. They were very happy and had a girl child in the first years after their marriage. She finally thought “All is well” and she always told her husband that she want to grow old with him and she always thanked her husband for completing her life.

One day, her husband’s business was broke and left them nothing. Therefore she had to take up a job. She got a job very soon in a prominent position in a reputed company. She was smart and still attractive even after 3 years of marriage. Seeing her smartness and attractiveness, her boss started to flirt with her to which she responded with a smile.  She thought to herself, “I have to keep the boss happy for my security”. Sometime she kept thinking about her boss. She often lost herself in dreaming about him, and then she cursed herself as she knew she was slowly falling for her boss.

It was on December, the weather was slightly cloudy, and she and her boss had to attend the company general conference at Java Island. Under pressure they took off on her boss private jet. After 45 minutes of flight, the plane lost attitude and they crash landed on the sea. They manage to land on a small uninhabited rocky desert island and they were totally lost with anything.

Back at home, news spread that the plane crash into piece and they were declared death. At the unknown island, they had realized that they can never go back home and they knew for sure they will soon starve to death because there was nothing on the small island. They decided to share everything about themselves and about their feeling for each other. At last they kiss each other and made love.

I think we know the end of the story. What would have happened to them after some days?

Now the question arises, who was Jenny true love? Or what is true love? Or is there something called ‘true love’. According to William Shakespeare, “Love is not love. Which alters when it alteration finds.”

Let’s discuss:

1. People who believe in first love may probably say Romeo was her true love.

2. Most may agree that Jimmy was just a sexual love.

3. Some may say that her love for her teacher was just infatuation.

4. Some people might say John Goodman; the pastor was the ideal man. She could have found her true feeling if she could have given some more time.

5. Religious people may say her husband was her true love for marriage is made in heaven.

6. Some people may say her boss was her true love because they loved each other and died together.

Also see my follow up complimentary on this discourse on true love, from here.