This is what Marin Preda wrote in ‘The most beloved of earthlings’.
Maybe so, what do I know? But I wonder if it’s love, we have it all? I do not believe. I don’t think love is enough. There are others things, perhaps not as large as love, but with a major impact.
If we do not have the ability to accept the other one, if we do not make efforts to understand them, if we do not ask ourselves questions about our way of interpreting, love is excellent but not enough.
How many times have I not seen people break up, they were upset, they were both suffering, they were both talking about love, but one or both of them couldn’t get over their own way of seeing the situation!
It is as if we were looking at the world, at the other one, through a tube made of a sheet of paper: we see partially, within the limits given by that roll, the world through our limits, not the world as a whole. The other will have his own tube and will see according to his own limits. If we had the strength to accept that if we put that tube aside, if we look at everything from above, we see differently, we might be pleasantly surprised. We might see what brought us together, what caused butterflies in our stomachs, look for ways to relate, create bridges of communication and set the ego free.
