#LIVETOLOVE

Photos by Zeara Oralde

“In the words of a Persian sage: love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.”

-Paulo Coelho

Before I dig deep into my thoughts, let me greet a Happy Valentines Day to all couples out there! I hope you'll have a fun weekend ender; and to us singles, well, don't be sad, Valentine's Day is not for couples only because V-Day is a celebration for Love. We should stop everything that we do and participate the celebration of love because love, as what I know, makes the world go round, come to think about it: if people don’t love the job they do, how will it grow?

Button-down by Topman.

Everything grows out of love—you’re alive because someone out there loves you; God is giving you a reason to live because you make the world a better place. Love should be the catalyst of change, we should make the saying, “Make love, not war” a living reality because the world we live in right now is in chaos; we already forgot the true purpose and meaning of love. We continue to deprive each living creature here on earth the right to love and be loved. When I turn on the TV to watch the news, there’s not a single portion of the news that will not remind us of the on going war in the Middle East and what I cannot comprehend is that why do we still turn our heads from those who are in need?

Boyfriend Jeans by Oxygen

I don’t believe in the end of the world but I do believe in the end of Humanity. We destroy the planet we live in, we destroy the only soil we thrive in and its true it is never too late to love but the question is: what if we got nothing left to love? Every time a commercial goes, “We serve quality because we love you” I always think to myself, did our perception of love have change? Why do we destroy in order to feel Love, when in fact the reason for creation is love? Did you ever wonder why? Love shouldn’t just exist between two people who’re deeply fascinated with each other love should exist everywhere. If Nobel could’ve discovered a love bomb, and every time it is dropped in a certain territory, it will cause love hormones to travel rapidly from one body to another and spread the virus we are all immune to; the world be heaven.

Shoes by Bally.

Love is the most underestimated value in the world and is taken for granted; when love is left to die, it will be fed to the decomposers we call hate and by the time love is gone it will turn someone incapacitated to live and will despise everyone or thing that it sees; but when love is accepted and well taken care of, like a tree: it will continue to grow in love and, in turn, will give love.