Let's TAO-lk about love again...

"The five colors cause one's eyes to be blind.

The five tones cause one's ears to be deaf.

The five flavors cause one's palate to be spoiled..."

(Tao Te Ching, 12)

Let's talk about love: Isn't that amazing to love a person who loves you back? Or even just to feel love even though it is unrequited, isn't that a real rapture or happiness for say? Or isn't that glorifying to be able to justify that somewhere sometime, with that person, your love could brought up a "happily-ever-after" tale? Or isn't that wonderful to see the beauty and essence of love, even if the whole universe imposes such love's inevitable end? Well, the point is, you love that person; that very individual you look to as your world, your heart, your soul, -YOUR EVERYTHING. And you definitely love it, that very feeling of ecstasy -CLOUD NINE! isn't it? and that's all because, again, you love that one person, that only one.

Yes, one. Not two, or three, but ONE. As what most of us would say, especially when we are in love: "He/She is the one!" or "My one and only (*insert callname here)". No one else, but that one only, right? And to think, with that one, we feel that wide-awake-ness in us, it's like: if you are to have that very romantic part in you, that part will contaminate all the other parts of your body, making you a whole body or organism of romance; a human machine of love.

But let us say, you love not only one, but two, or three. Can you still feel such drive you usually feel when you love only one person? Can you still perform the loving you typically showcase when you love just one individual? No, right? Because there is this division of love that happens with such plurality of love; it's like if we are to love a single person one-hundred-percent-ly, this 100% will be divided, if we have two love ones, they will share 50-50, or 30-70 (in the case that you love the one more than the other). But the point is, there is this 'diminishing' of love once we do it two or three or more ways. In other words, such multitude of loving will not allow a person to see or perceive clearly what love really is as a whole. Aside from that one cannot perform at it's very best in loving another because of an another 'another' and so on (as one would want it to be), one will also feel numbly the love given by others to him/her, especially those whom he/she love. Numb, in the sense that such person will not 

feel directly and know who really loves him/her truly. Therefore, one then will never see the real love which is naturally shared only by two individuals, without any outside or external parties.

Clearly, the point is that with the presence, or shall I say, the knowledge of plurality, there will also be undesirable consequences. Like that of the rainbow, one cannot see the beauty of red; from it's very intensity, down to it's shades. Nor the yellow, orange, green, blue, indigo, or violet will be solely appreciated because, whether you accept it or not, it will only be seen as "one of the many", and not as "the one and only". 

Like love, I mean, seriously, who does appreciate a "one of the many", right?