LOVE ME FOR NO REASON

I sincerely hope that as you read this, you would understand or at least get an iota of understanding of what I hope to portray in this piece.

In this twenty something years I’ve walked on earth; I’ve come to terms with some certain truths about this love issue, whether platonic as friends or as lovers, or as acquaintance or even family. But these truths stare us in the face everyday, yet we hardly acknowledge them. Let me explain.

I was speaking with a friend of mine some couple of days ago, and she made a statement and I quote: “God loves us, even when we have nothing to offer, He still loves us. We have nothing that attracts him to us, yet he still loves us”. It struck me and got me thinking. I once saw a picture message of a girl who fell in love with a guy because of his afro hair, but after he barbed his hair to the scalp, the girl started complaining that he was no longer the guy she fell in love with, and soon left afterwards. Don’t love him because he’s hyperactive and would crack your ribs with laughter anytime he’s with you; don’t love her because she knows how to twist words and churn out articles that’ll get you thinking, laughing or crying as the case maybe; don’t love him because he can play football better than his peers, don’t love her because she’s got the best voice in the church and can pitch better than anybody you’ve seen alive, don’t love him because he’s quiet and would always keep to myself, don’t love him because he’s cute and handsome or because she has a nice dress sense, don’t love her because she’s got a nice body shape and nice hips too like that of coke bottle, don’t love him because of the mounds of muscle on his tommy called six packs, don’t love him because of that car, don’t love me for any reason.

You see, when that car is no more there, your reason for living him is gone; when that voice is no more there and she can’t run music scales like she used to, your reason for loving her is gone; and when the shape is no more there, when all that meets the eye is fat, more fat, much more fat, so goes all the hopes of your love for her; when those packs are gone from his belly and only fat remains, your reasons for loving him is gone too; when those nice clothes she wears are no more because she’s very very rich even to afford a 3 square meal and can barely take care of herself, your reason for loving her is gone; when she can no longer get you thinking with her articles because she stopped being inspiring, your reason for loving her is gone; and when his smile is gone, and he can no longer make you cry with laughter, make you clutch your ribs with laughter, make you gasp for air with laughter, so goes your reason for loving him too. Love me for no reason, love me because I’m me, love me without any clause or condition attached, because when it’s no more there, we resolve to saying “you have changed, you are no more the somebody I used to know…etc”

Learn to love that friend for no reason, learn to accept the person because he/she is who he/she is and not because of some attributes they possess. My father in heaven loves me for no reason, that’s why I have learnt to love you for no reason too.

#LoveMeWithoutClause

#LoveMeWithoutCondition

#LoveMeForNoReason

#Gen. Sam