What is love?
By jty2005
@jty2005 (17)
Morocco
July 7, 2008 5:39am CST
There's an old story from my mom, hope you all do not think it's out of date.
My uncle,my mom's elder brother, the story happened in his childhood. He was a little boy with pure love to little animals.For his luck, he was presented two little doves from his friend.
Under his good care to them, they grew up day by day, could fly around in the house. Every time he came back from school they would fly to him and flapped down on his shoulders. Naturally, my uncle regarded them as two family members.
But one day, when on a dining, one of the two birds flew onto the dinner table, right before my grandpa's eyes. He was irritated, and grasped one of its leg was brutally pulled out. Resuld from that, it was disabled, and my grandpa abanoned it with claiming that the bird would die soon. Not several days subsequently, the other dove disappeared. No one knew where it had gone. About 2 months later, two doves sprung up and hopped happily around the house for an hour around the time my uncle came back from school. Thereafter, everyday was the same. The two doves, one was single-legged, the other was ordinary, both of them were pure white.
The 2 doves would never leave each other, nor would they leave the little boy who cared them mych.
No misfortune could segregate the 2 doves, because love existed to the counterpart in their hearts.
When I listened to the mithology-like story, I could not believe, but it trully happened, my mom is one of the witnesses.
Birds, can and willing to accompany his spouse to wage through misfortunes in their life. They proved in a very human way, maybe a way more than human.
It tells me more than a myth.
This is love,isn't it?
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@ljforte1024 (150)
• Canada
8 Jul 08
I reluctantly agree. I'm sorry...I'm not one who would agree with this type of circumstance; however, this does prove to be love if indeed animals can love. I don't see why they can't but I'm a skepic by nature so until I do research myself I'm skepical.
Anyway, thanks for the story and I would agree that yes this is true love that humans need to learn from.