Beyond the Scent on the Sheets

    Once upon a time love used to be a true storyteller of emotions and feelings. For the phrase "I love you!" would not simply slip-out of someone's mouth without carrying any weight.  This was before we decided to cosmetically redress the phrase into meaning something totally different.  In those days,  love meant the honest people's heart which they used to express pure intention with actions.  Nowadays, those actions mean sliding under someone's skin for the purpose of pleasure while taking part of them for fun.

    This has become the gospel deemed normal and when one preserve themselves for marriage is now regarded as a shameful act. Growing up a woman was celebrate for keeping her self for marriage and this used to bring pride to the brides family. However, due to globalization we have discarded that celebration as old fashioned. As we now embrace a push that does not encourage families but celebrate individualism. Which is strange as individualism does not yield any progress in whatever sense we may want to take it.

    There is a shona proverb that say "Rume rimwe harikombe churu." which means that a single man cannot dig up an anthill alone. With this brings me to the next point, we need to restore love to what it was and what it meant. This is because if we do so, we will not define making love as love and would not allow our eyes to teach us the wrong definition of love. That is, our current definition of love has been defined by the media which now celebrate something wrong as right. To add to the fire social media has also added some seasoning to this pandemic, as love is now defined in seconds with really intention masked.

    With the seconds rule in play, we now have a lot divorces due to the actions of things we have experienced prior. Because we have given our body as an act of love too many people, when we get married we cannot remain there because we will not be satisfied with what we got. Hence many issues may emerge to break families of which does not just affect the couple but trickle down to the offsprings of that couple. Birthing a generation that is growing in broken homes due to our own foolishness and desire for short pleasure.

    In short, we need to restore the meaning of love and abandon the new notion about love. Thereby we can help build strong relationships and family bonds that are true.