FEATURES: Have You Said 'I LOVE YOU' Enough?

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Have it ever crossed your mind that someone you hate the most could be someone you really love? Have it ever crossed your mind that you will regret all the bad things you've done to them when you realize that they actually love you? And have you ever regretted how rare it is for you to express your love even for someone you do love? For the last case, i have.

When all the people in the world are busy with their effort to success. When we are all busy concerning about our safety, concerning about terrorism, global economic crisis, hatred and greed. Do you really think that God has created all of us just to make us live in this kind of situation? To me, those things that have occupied your mind aren't worth it compared with the best gift Jesus has given to us. Which is LOVE.

Indirectly, all of our thoughts and way of thinking are influenced by every activity around us. Terrorism, for instance. What make 'em feel free of guilt doing those horrible things? Killing million of innocent life? It was HATRED. They hate their opposite. They feel insecure. Has it ever happened to you? Have you ever hated someone? I believe you all have. Maybe not as extreme as terrorist. But as a human, in a matter of fact, we all have the ability to both love and hate someone.

Hatred is not something that we should keep within ourselves. We have to eliminate it as far as we can instead. But it isn't so easy. One way to help you overcome this problem is this quote: You will never regret good things you've done to anybody ( whether if they are friends or enemies ). The thing that exists is you will always regret bad things you've done. Sometimes you can't forgive your own self for doing bad things.

Even if somebody does a bad thing to you, just take it easy and forgive them. That way, you are building pride for yourself. And you will never regret that you've done a good thing to someone who had hurt you. You will feel that you are someone with big heart who can reply bad things with good things. Maybe, you'll feel 'how stupid am i, doing nice things for bad people". Yes, that's human. But in the end, you'll never regret that. God will give you a big present for your big heart.

In other hands, when someone hurt your feelings and you can't get it out of your head, plan a revenge action and hurt him/her back. And for one condition, you finally realized that he/she had never meant to hurt you and for worse, YOU were the one who was wrong. What will you feel? What'll you do? Regret it and can't do nothing but apologizing? Sometimes apologizing doesn't always make you feel free from all of your guilt. Some guilt and regret are always being kept within ourselves. It's like the negative power has been saved within our subconscious mind. Something that can't be erased no matter what you do. So, love them all.. ALL!! No exception, no matter if they are liar, hypocrite, selfish etc. They are your FRIENDS!!

Live your life like you'll never live it another day. Actually, when you say that LOVE is no longer exist, we are terminally wrong. I got a quote which i thought very impressive. It was from the movie LOVE ACTUALLY. Hugh Grant says, "When you say that love is no longer around, and world is filled with hatred and greed i kinda get a strong feeling otherwise. When i see people in the arrival gate of the Heathrow airport, all i can see is love. Mother, Father, Daughter, Sister, Brother, Boyfriend, Girlfriend. When the plane strikes The Twin Tower. A lot of phone call comes, and no message of hatred. They were all messages of LOVE. So when i really think about it, i finally feel that LOVE is ACTUALLY ALL AROUND"


The point in all of these explanation is SHOWING YOUR LOVE!! Because loving someone is one of the best gift God has given in every single's heart. And your unspoken love is actually NOTHING!! The people you love will never know of you don't have the guts to do so. So don't just let it all go to waste.

I was one of the people who had contaminated myself with hatred and anger. To be honest, even for a person like me, i can build love. But sometimes, i love myself more than anyone else. But yes, i love a lot of people. One of the person i truly love is my grandfather. But in the past time, i always felt that he wasn't very good. A lot of time, i dislike him. He was a man who always been discipline and he was always trying to discipline people around him, including me who have a messy nature. I always leave things unattended and let my goods scattered all around most of times. Book should be placed in the shelf. Do not read while you're eating. Do not sleep too late to watch TV. Do not turn on the air conditioner while it was raining, bla bla bla. For me, those things were tiny and unimportant. But in other hand, my grandpa felt that if you wanna do well in huge thing, start from the tiny one. He always got mad at me for my unorganized habit. From time to time, i felt that i've hated him so much for all of his concern in tiny things. I've never know that i truly love him until He's taken away from me.

Since he suffered from cancer 9 years ago. I never felt that i hate him anymore. I love him. I've always cried my heart out for God to save him. But the problem isn't about building love. It is all about how hard it is for me to show my love to him. He once fell into coma. And i was shocked. I cried, i shouted calling him to wake up. Tears pouring like a river. Like i have a bunch of tears factory within my organ. But when he woke up, conscious. I couldn't show more love and gratitude for him. I have never kissed, hugged, and said how much i love him. Now, he has left. Those were hard to do, i was too shy to admit my love. Then he passed away last year and since that hard time on, i can never stop regretting. How i have never kissed him enough, hugged him enough and say 'I LOVE YOU'. If i could turn back time, i will hug him everytime i am home, kiss him and say 'I LOVE YOU, PAPI!' But there's no turning back. Regret is all that left. After he passed away, i made a permanent tattoo of his birth date as a tribute for him. If can't show him how much i love him, i can only show the world, can i?

Now that you've learned my experience, are you still gonna be shy and so selfish to express your love? have you shown your love enough to all the people surround you? Even the bad ones? Remember, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU GOT TIL' IT'S GONE.

One thing to ask yourself, "HAVE I SAID 'I LOVE YOU ENOUGH?"