Love is like bird poop. It hits you when you when you least expect it.

The usual thing that you hear is about someone trying to decide when it is time to let go. But the more important question that must be considered is that, when is it the right time to hold on?

Wanting to stop loving someone is like flushing a toilet. No matter how many times you flush it down, something always manages to stay behind.

These days, people are more concerned with giving up than holding on. Relationships fail. Marriages fall apart. Children stray away from their families. It’s because giving up is much easier to do and no one will actually blame you for letting go. It’s just like diarrhea. Everybody sees how bad it is – but no one would really blame you for it. But the issue still stays – like the stain and the stink that sticks on your behind when you go in public.

Holding on takes more courage than you know. Holding on means that you are willing to move forward despite the things you’ve gone through.

Holding on is like driving a beat up Oldsmobile. It may die down on you at times, but it’s all you got to get you home.

Loving out of convenience is never right. You don’t love someone just because it makes you feel good. You don’t commit to someone just because you get the better end of the deal. You love for the purpose of making another feel good – giving them the better end of the deal. When you love, you give yourself without expecting anything in return.

Jealousy is like a shower room. Someone always complains when someone else has a bigger set.

Not that size matters, that's off the subject. Jealousy is basically 90% selfishness. I say 90% because I still believe that there is a justifiable reason for that remaining 10%. Although feeling overwhelmed by the not-so-jolly-green-giant is quite normal, there comes a time when it spirals out of control and that you should pull the plug on it - if you can find it. It's perfectly fine to feel jealous when some other guy sends your girl flowers. Heck, it's normal to feel jealous when your man remembers your best friend's birthday and forgets yours. But when jealousy pops in its big, green, ugly head whenever your man (or woman) mentions a girl name, then there's definitely something wrong with this picture. When you become this jealous, you've reached a point where you want your partner to conform to a certain standard that suits your convenience. This jealousy has long ceased to be righteous, if this is the case. This, my friend, ceases to be jealousy. It evolves entirely into selfishness.

Loving is like giving a liver transplant. You give a part of yourself to make someone else feel good.

So does that mean that you just keep on giving without expecting anything in return?

Heck no.

We are incapable of giving perfect, selfless love. In the entire course of history, God was the only One Who was capable of doing that. What we can do, on the other hand, is that which is simply close to being perfect.

When you give, don’t expect something in return. When you are reciprocated, be grateful. If not, don’t be bitter. This is the only principle you should remember in the process of loving someone. Look forward to reciprocation, but don’t expect it. What’s the difference, you ask?

Looking forward to reciprocation is like a girl excited to get married.

Expecting reciprocation is like a girl going all out to buy the dress.

The difference between looking forward to reciprocation and expecting it is how your emotions will be whether or not reciprocation arrives. Whether or not your man (or woman) appreciates, affirms or reciprocates your feelings is of no consequence – you love that person nonetheless. That is the selfless, unconditional love that we are capable of giving.

But of course, there is a time when you should go on and replace your toilet when it refuses to flush everything down.

In this case, flushing isn’t the problem – the toilet is.

There will always come a time when you should stop because you’re already starting to look like some donkey missing his (or her) zebra.

You must also know how to tell when reciprocation or affirmation will arrive. And by all that is right in this world, you should stop when there is an obvious indication of a lack of reciprocity or affirmation. This is obvious when your woman (or man), despite everything you’ve done, still gives all her attention to everyone else around her – except you. This is obvious when your man (or woman) is a completely different person with you than with others – and it turns out after all that he (or she) is an entirely better person when with them.

When this time comes, then it’s time to let go. Bring on the baby wipes.

Ang daming taong naghahanap ng pag-ibig, samantalang ang dami ng mga taong nagtatapon nito.

Ang daming taong handang ibigay ang lahat para sa iyo, samantalang ang taong mahal mo, ni laway hindi kayang isuko para sa iyo.

Welcome back to puberty.

Happy February!