Love can actually be ideal or practical depending on how your partner reciprocates it.

“My heart has four chambers.” That was the reason I made to my Fil-Am girlfriend when she asked me “Bakit apat kami sa puso mo?”. That was the lamest reason I could think during that time. Perhaps I said that because I wanted to end our relationship already but in contrary, it did not. She actually lavished me with gifts and proposals to win me over. Was that real love?

Coincidentally last week, two programs (a movie and a series) on TV talked about or touched on an issue which I think some people nowadays are confronted with. This is, loving two persons at the same time. Ironically however, it is the female protagonists who were faced with this dilemma and not their male counterparts. This is a strange treatment to an issue that is more appropriate to men but giving the producers the benefit of the doubt, perhaps they were just minimizing the double standard prevailing in our present society.

In its latest episode, “True Blood”’s main character Sookie, has expressed his love to both her vampire lovers Bill and Eric. Although both rivals object to the idea, they both compromised and forget the rivalry. Similarly, Bella, main character of “The Twilight Saga”, acceded to Jacob’s theory that she also loves him only that she was afraid to admit it because of her vampire boyfriend Edward. Jacob theorized that Bella could love both of them considering that this situation is also similar to one of Jacob’s friend. Thus in the end, she expressed her love to Jacob and when she was confronted by Edward, she just said, "But I love you more."

They say that when you truly love someone, you would do whatever makes your loved one happy. Ideal? Maybe. Practical? Maybe. It is ideal when you hold on to the relationship even though you are not being loved in return. On the other hand, it is practical to hold on when you know that you are being loved also. Love I think must not be selfish. We could not own someone’s feelings. We could just share it.