Well, after the last couple of days seeing a few of my friends going through... a horribly emotional time, I come to "randomly" realize that how can love not cost a thing?
Love is probably one of the biggest non-commodity, intangible investment bringing about scarily varying dividends (depending on how you look at it) and it's one of the most high risk choice a person has to undertake. Love in fact costs everything.
Love costs you your time. Every relationship needs a lot of time involved. You spend eons and eons of time building up the trust, the love, the bond. You cut down on time you hang out with your friends, or your family or your own personal space because now you are living the time of 2 instead of 1.
Love is also about sacrifice. You give some to the relationship, you also take some from the relationship. You learn to share things and thoughts and words. Most importantly, you learn to share your heart.
Love costs money. It really does. No matter how much of a thrift you can possibly be or how much of a grinch you really are, you have to spend SOME sort of money. Birthday's, Valentine's Day, X'Mas, Anniversaries, etc.
Sometimes, love costs you your friends and your family. You choose to spend more time with your significant other than you unintentionally (or perhaps worst, intentionally) reject your family and friends that in time they just learn not to include you at all. You have been alienanted.
Worst still that costing your friends and/or your family, love costs you your life. How many have come and gone in life because of love? how many of us have been hurt in one way or another.
But perhaps of all the things that love can cost, probably the most expensive one is your heart. you can put your soul and your emotions and your life all on the line and if it works out, you get your rich dividends. But more often than not, it doesn't. And when it doesn't, your heart and every part of your soul takes a real beating. The worst part of it all, sometimes you don't recover your losses, and you drift away. Like a ghost trapped in the real world.
So the next time someone says, "Love Don't Cost A Thing".. take a shoe and shove it up their... sorry i mean think twice. Love can cost nothing material but everything that is inmaterial.
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