They go together like bread and honey! Love, the great persuader and even greater deceiver? There is hardly a force, but one, that has more influence on a person’s life than love no matter its guise.
However, when lust is at play, love lurks in the wings awaiting its cue. The two are curious bedfellows who often share the pillow with infatuation. Bit of a dodgy metaphor!
Lust is possibly the precursor of love, though, if a generalisation, it’s not by much. One has to pass through that phase in order to satiate bouncing hormones and galloping testosterone. I submit there is a fine line, both elusive and opaque, between love and lust.
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In my limited experience, women tend to capitulate readily to love and fling caution, a career and a life, to the wind in pursuit of that emotion. Men, on the other hand, although not entirely immune to some reorganisation in their lives, tend to be more hesitant to change radically. In Shakespeare’s play Love’s Labour’s Lost, a king and three of his lord’s vow to set aside love in order to host four ladies.
Love or lust, presented opportunity and consequently love conquered all. In Much Ado About Nothing, the Bard, in a comic way, explores the intricacies of this emotion seen through the love-starved eyes of Claudio, a returning soldier. I quote a rather witty passage snuck into that play: “He that hath a beard, is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man: and he that is less than a man and he that is more than a youth, is not for me and I am not for him.” “As merry as the day is long, speak low if you speak love.” — Beatrice, who uttered those sentiments, was fickle!
The Bard was a great romantic, though I reckon Ann Hathaway would be at odds with that. (Tony Lovell, what sez you?) Truth is, love is not the ultimate or only force that drives life. There is another far greater energy that will move mountains, attain anything, including love even if it’s pseudo, and achieve nirvana.
Of course I refer to hard cash. There are people who reverently tell you that money means little and controls nothing in their lives. These are generally well-heeled folk with a condition called “affluenza” and accordingly, are somewhat desensitised to the reality of middle, lower and zero incomes. Money is of little consequence when in abundance.
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