Love

If I speak in tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails.
But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a chiild.
When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face.
Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

--- 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Each and one of every quality above is really tough to achieve. It would probably take a lifetime of learning and practising, especially for an easily-moody, pessimistic, low self-esteemed and 小气 person like me ~~~~ =s
Yet don't you think it is too close to heart and too relevant to ignore? Don't you feel tempted to exercise the written in your life so that one day, we do not know when it will happen but one day, you might just be able to shower people around you with pure, beautiful love?

I admit that I have not been in my bestest moods (the reason? I really don't get it) the whole of this week. I kept pondering over why I am unhappy and would then find the tiniest of faults with my loved ones, dwelled on them, and ended up making myself feel more and more miserable. Reading the passage made me realise how childish I was the entire week. To stop my nonsenses and apply any of the above qualities, be it patience, kindness, forgiveness etc., would have cured my depression. But there I was swimming and indulging in own misery, hurting people I love along the way..

It is definitely tough to apply all the above qualities, but a change in mindset makes everything so much simpler. Life is about choices and God has given us will to choose what we want to think.

And yes, of course, I definitely want provide the ones I care for with the best and purest kind of love I can give~~ =)