Love is a fruit which when it has reached perfection you just can`t get enough of it. Since the beginning of life we have been attracted to this beautiful and perfect fruit wherever it may be. The sweet smell of this fruit calls us by name and just like Eve in the garden, it becomes desirable in our eyes and good for food. Our mouths become watery whenever we see the glowing color of this fruit and we yearn for a bite and imagine the refreshing juice gliding down our throat and settling in our stomach. That is what the sweet taste of love does to us when it is in its state of perfection. But what about when love turns sour, did you know that love also has its sour taste?
what is love anyway? can we define love? yes, we all define love in our own way. If you should seek out the definition of love you would find that each source will give you their own definition. And that is why i break down my definition to one simple thing, by figuratively objectifying love as a fruit, something that everyone can relate to. Because majority of people i know love fruits and most fruits are like an aphrodisiac in their own way depending on the occasion in which it is being used; and every fruit has its season when it is best eaten and a time when it is not edible.
Just like every physical fruit, the emotional fruit of love also has its time when it is just not palatable. Most people say it is “love turn to hate” but I call it the time when love`s taste becomes sour. Anything is likely to cause love to become sour at times and then we either do two things: we blame others or we blame ourselves. It is said that you reap whatsoever you sow but sometimes we also reap what others sow and that is when it hurts most.
Who would have thought that ‘love’ comes with disadvantages and side effects. Lets look at a few factors which may cause love to turn to its dark side: For example, a married couple who is seeking divorce after many years of marriage. Both has to digest the bitter juice of a fruit which has been decomposing from the core and now they are serving each other of a fruit that seems to be way out of its season. Another factor which has been contributing to love having a sour taste is the career minded individual who only intents to see to the success of his career and not his relationship and therefore causing the other partner to feel left behind and ignored.
cheating will always be the enemy of any relationship and when injected into that sweet fruit which both of you has been sharing for a while, it instantly changes the taste to something hard to swallow. some people just can`t bear to see others partaking of the fruit of love and enjoying every bite; they think that it is their duty to interfere in others relationship and share the joy, and that`s when love becomes very sour if one partner decides that they are going to be kind enough to share. Jealousy will never allow the fruit of love to form its natural content without hindrance because when jealousy exist then all you will get when you try to squeeze something out is ‘no trust all.’ Love can taste very sour especially when it has been in a ripened state throughout a committed relationship which will have soon be run ashore in wreckage because of neglect by the respective partners to tend to the fruit-age in order for them to get nourishing results.
I am not a doctor, psychologist or therapist, i am just a man, a human being who has to endure the bitter and sweet taste of love too many times in life and i also know that others out there may have suffered the same fate.
The fruit of love like every other fruit has its time and season, but it is up to us the beneficiaries of this nourishing delight of life granted to us by the God of love who created us to appreciated it in the right way. Our hearts are the victims of any emotional accidents which we suffer throughout our lives and therefore it is our responsibility to protect it and make sure we feed it with the right nutrients that love has to offer.