“Love is all that matters” were the words that stood right above the marker board in my third year biochemistry class. I never thought for minutest of seconds whose idea it was or their personality, it struck me as true. The subject Love is not monopolistic or status-centered because whether dreg or cream of society, everyone has a word or two.
Love seems to be a household word and definitely a stranger, but on the contrary “Lust is well-expressed but unmentionable. It sound queer to say “I lust after you”, “I Love you” seems better perhaps! But when we popularize the word “Love” in many cases the deed is lust. Like every other word, love has an origin. I believe Love (at the risk of saying True Love) is divine and this is the point of departure between both four-letter words. Lust is everything that Love is not. Its victim stages an unquenchable affection for their naïve counterpart, but this rises and falls on sexual feelings. The bible reels off the matchless qualities of love in 1 Cor. 13: 4 - 8 and the slightest aberration of that is the beginning of lust. It doesn't matter who the guy or lady is; what do you feel? Love or Lust?
By Nnamdi Nonny-Okoli
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