EDUCATING YOUTH TO REAL LOVE.

There are many youth today who are hungering for real love but all that they get is superficial love. There are many lonely hearts. How is it that the youth at such a young age say that they have fallen in love? Do they really know what true love is? Love is made into a concept without knowing what it really is. I feel that the youngsters at their young age are not sufficiently educated about the value of real love and all that they do is try experimenting it by themselves. They think that they have truly fallen for someone when in reality it’s just an attracted or infatuation. And this cycle goes on and on. They get carried away until one day they are hit hard onto the ground, later on not knowing what to do. It goes without saying that they get hurt and their lives become miserable. Later on, some restrain from getting into such situations but some do try their luck. And it works; it may end at times, where the hurt person ends up getting more hurt than before and in future ends up hurting someone else. This leads me to ask the question “What is it that the youths are really searching for?”  But one thing I'm sure of is that most of the youth are in search of true and real love. But what is true love in the first place?

True love is not entirely a human entity; but it also has a divine aspect to it. It is God who in His love provides the grace for His creature to love one another. We are all made for love. There will always be love for the lovable, but there will never be love for the unlovable unless we begin to love them for God’s sake.

True love is outgoing, service oriented and ever ready to self-sacrifice. Love is a feeling that one feels than one can never give enough of it to the other. By giving love no one has ever gone bankrupt. Love can’t be seen. It can only be experienced. Love doesn’t come with a price tag and neither can it be weighed. Love simply ‘IS’. True love never thinks how much it will receive in return it simply gives its all.

True love is best put in the words of St. Augustine ‘Our hearts are made for you Lord, they will never find rest, until they find their rest in You.’ Love is simply that which find rest in someone who can be his/her comfort and that's which gives him/her peace.

Every youth feels that each one should be complete but he/she doesn’t know how they will be complete and it’s this which gives meaning and purpose to one’s life. Each one wants to be happy, and to gain this happiness they are even ready to take up to different vices, only to feel accepted and loved. Later they feel attracted towards others which is not true in its essence; it’s just an unreal love, which last for a few days. But it’s only when one gets to the true essence of love, that time he/she feels complete. The true essence of love is no other than God. He alone can satisfy all the aspirations of the heart. God is true love. But in this world His love is manifested by His people. The people are substitutes of God who spread or give love to each other. We are happy that we love someone but we are much happier when someone else loves us. We need love because we are imperfect and that’s how many lovers consider each other as unworthy but at the same time they love each other deeply.

These thoughts seem to be vague but it’s sure that no one will ever find an absolute ideal of love because it can only be God. But it’s only later that the youth realize that, what he/she wanted was the love that doesn’t fall short of love. And that is the infinite love who is God. It’s only by the blessings of God there can be true and real love. And finally a relationship stands strong enough when the foundation is built on the Love of God who is the giver of all Love.