03.23.07

Chromatic Manifesto in A Major

Posted in Uncategorized at 4:18 pm by Miracle ♪♫

A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism… proletarians of all countries, unite! Ooops!!! Wrong manifesto. hehehe
Here’s mine… *smiles sheepishly*

Single? In a relationship? Married? It’s complicated? Is a selection mandatory? Suddenly Friendster, and moreover, society has become status-advertent. Yet one cannot just slither away to a non-existent option, it is a social duty to make a choice.

It is rather amusing to take a cursory view of Friendster profiles and notice how easily and absurd people manage to switch or opt statuses with a simple click of the cyborg rodent. Those who have boyfriends or girlfriends declare “married” which can be tolerably sweet at times, flattering the lover and the beloved alike, but noticeably assuming enough - this is neither a compliment nor an animadversion. There are also those who are really married but still proclaim singleness - shame on you, and those who conveniently wish to be vague about their private lives claim that “it’s complicated” - I respect that. Now, I do not wish to war against anyone who decides on whatever status they are pleased with to display on their data. In cyberworld you have “freedom of click” (evidently I just made-up that term, still you have to admit there’s truth in it). However, this freedom of clicking cannot be applied in real life. Choosing, or accepting a status requires more than just a click and is exceedingly intricate.

I have been desiring to write a relationship manifesto of some sort, but this notion dawned on me last February and I certainly did not want people to reckon that I was also conforming to the season of crimson cards, paper hearts, and tinsel flatteries. Love, in all its complexity and various forms has unceasingly been at the tip of my pen, but old Mr. Hesitation kept echoing, “who are you to write of such a topic?” Subsequently, I have found the courage to charge, “who am I not to?” It does not take one to be a great writer or a philosopher to do so, it only calls for a heart - and perhaps in my case, twenty two years of never-been-kissed-ness. *grins*

Resembling notes in a chromatic passage, I begin to understand each timbre, every vibration, and musical colors as I go through Love’s grand staff…

Single

A

• Being unattached allows a person the chance to abound and gain strength as a distinct being and see circumstances lucidly without a shroud of romantic stupor veiling the eyes.

A #

• Loneliness and longing will naturally be part of the vocabulary, but contentment with one’s current state becomes a great achievement essential to love and life.

B

• One is free from a certain bondage. Life can be just as colorful and adventurous to those who are patient. Wallow not in despair. Hasting to find your “other half” might only lead you to be adhered to another half who really wasn’t meant to be your half after all.

C

• The Single tag does not necessarily label a person an incompetent of loving or being loved. Singleness should not cripple your spirit.

It’s Complicated

C #

• Do not complicate it.

In a Relationship

D

• Distinguish obsession from love. The desire to be physically one with another does not always mean love. Do not let your possession puff you up nor eat you away. Possessiveness and jealousy is dangerous, for this sort of love may be explosive but it will disappear as easily as a cloud of debris with nothing but ashes left for you to mourn over. Love purely.

D #

• You are blessed if you can still distinguish yourself despite being a couple, and refrain from trying to be what you are not.

E

• It is honorable if the relationship you are involved in is not a result of wicked schemes… eternal and real love cannot escalate from such.

F

• A genuine relationship should not bring about frailty or insecurity - resulting to pursuit and obsessive monitoring of your beloved and his/her former object of attention.

Married

F #

• Acknowledge the Hellenic hierarchy of love:

1. Agape - Charity. Spiritual oneness. Faith. The deepest relationship. (Unfortunately not in Friendster’s list.) The greatest love there is.
2. Philia - The cool and rational side of love. Fathomless friendship. Mental symbiosis.
3. Storge - Affection and admiration. The warm aspect of love.
4. Eros - Passion. Sexual desire. The hot facet of love. (Take note that it is last on the tabulation.)

G

• “‘Til death do us part” should be sought out with extreme consideration. It only takes a single glance to fallin love but so much more to truly stay in love. Grasp every good thing.

G #

• God is Love. Therefore He should be the axis of every relationship. 1 Corinthians 13

1. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove
   mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
4. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5. Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6. Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7. Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail;
   whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge,
   it shall vanish away.
9. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought
    as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

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