The only way to navigate Love is to be lost within it. - an excerpt from Keoki Trask's "Be The Feast"
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Love can be a many splendid thing Can't deny the joy it brings A dozen roses, diamond rings Dreams for sale and fairy tales It'll make you hear a symphony And you just want the world to see But like a drug that makes you blind, It'll fool you every time The trouble with love is It can tear you up inside Make your heart believe a lie It's stronger than your pride The trouble with love is It doesn't care how fast you fall And you can't refuse the call See, you got no say at all Now I was once a fool, it's true I played the game by all the rules But now my world's a deeper blue I'm sadder, but I'm wiser tooI swore I'd never love again I swore my heart would never mend Said love wasn't worth the pain But then I hear it call my name(The trouble with) The trouble with love is It can tear you up inside Make your heart believe a lie It's stronger than your pride The trouble with love is It doesn't care how fast you fall And you can't refuse the call See, you got no say at all Every time I turn around I think I've got it all figured out My heart keeps calling and I keep on falling Over and over again The sad story always ends the same Me standing in the pouring rain It seems no matter what I do It tears my heart in two(The trouble with love is) The trouble with love, yeah(It can tear you up inside) It can tear you up inside(Make your heart believe a lie) Make your heart believe a lie It's stronger than your pride(The trouble with love is) It's in your heart It's in your soul (doesn't care how fast you fall) You won't get no control(and you can't refuse the call) See, you got no say at all(The trouble with love is) Oh, yeah(It can tear you up inside) (Make your heart believe a lie)
Before you jump into to the conclusion that Kelly Clarkson would never want you to love – let’s try to be more open minded and understand that love can truly be many things (however splendid or tragic). This song was created for the motion picture, Love Actually. The movie is an ensemble comedy that tells 10 separate (but intertwining) London love stories, leading to a big climax on Christmas Eve (netflix.com). There’s young love, forbidden love, comedic love, tragic love and even, “gay” love. There is no limit to what love can be or do for us. We may be in the crappiest condition where the guy we’ve loved for 10 years still fails to even see us more that just a friend, but you know what, it’s still love. We can define love for whatever it is in our lives. There is freedom to love that’s why it makes it so complicated – we could never encompass it, define it or limit it to how it grows, touches and changes lives. Love can be an anatomy, a feeling in our tummy or a deep regard of respect… for whatever it is, we all know what it feels, we have all had love at least one in our lives and it that moment, we have also felt hurt. If love can bring great things, it can also bring a storm that we must be willing and able to recover from. This song isn’t a bitter attempt to isolate love for its happiness isn’t worth the pain it brings. But I see it more as a challenge to engage in love that is hard to find, that is so beautiful and was really worth every hurt, joy and sacrifice. Don’t hop on every relationship that comes your way, assess it… is it really what you want to invest in? Does the relationship garner your needs as well as of the other? Our hearts will always yearn for someone or something to love. Love is in our soul and as humans we are but natural lovers eager to touch one life at a time. Though we set forth in life in search for love in a sincere manner, we can’t help but get hurt in the process, whether it was because our expectations weren’t met or we just didn’t see eye-to-eye with the person we ended up with, don’t make this a reason to stop loving. There is but many things in life that are free to love and is also in search for the one thing that will turn her/his world around.
Don’t hesitate to love – there are no solutions, no rules and no set plans – because for the moments we fall apart, those are the times where we learn and rise up to be better that what we were before.
IKeepLoveReal.Blogspot.com is an unofficial site of IKeepLoveReal.com
I Keep Love Real (IKLR) is a campaign for a deeper understanding of the
meaning of love, relationships, and sexuality.
KEEP is respecting the nobility of affection and love.
LOVE refers to courtship, romance, and relationships between men and women with eyes towards friendship and marriage.
REAL is a quality of love that leads to respecting the dignity of the other person, waiting for marriage for love’s full expression,
and making it last despite trials.
The first person pronoun "i" makes keeping love real a personal decision not an imposition from the outside.
We think that… The campaign vision is realized through the projects of IAS-iKLR and the iKLR International network.
Projects
Talk
Interactive talks given by ates and kuyas to high school and college students,
with no-holds-barred conversation on real issues about love, relationships, and sexuality.
Mobile Booth
iKLR hopes to build its name by creating familiarity with the youth through the setting up of booths in school-organized activities (e.g. fairs and variety shows)
Music Video
From the winners of the 2007 I Keep Love Real Song-writing Competition, iKLR will launch a music video for the song that best captures the message of the campaign.
Lifestyle Merchandise
Lifestyle merchandise such as baller bands, vintage necklaces, and dog tags are promoted as an expression of one’s personal commitment to keep love real.
Ad Campaign
To reach the mainstream youth audience, promotions through television, radio, and print shall be carried out.
Photography Competition
The idea of the competition is for the youth to see and appreciate the true meaning of love in the dynamics of everyday human interaction.
Using camera-enabled mobile phones, participants of the competition are to capture creative, appropriate, and meaningful images that best portray the message of iKLR.
Scriptwriting Competition and TV Special
Similar to the Photography Competition, iKLR hopes to engage the youth in discovering and promoting a kind of love that respects and nurtures, by means of a scriptwriting competition. The winning story will be presented to interested media partners for portrayal in appropriate television shows, to be launched the following year.
Real Love Revolution Southeast Asian Youth Congress
Youth representatives from the Southeast Asian nations will be invited to the Philippines for a congress on real love revolution. Unity is fostered among these neighboring nations to uphold values strongly rooted in the Asian psyche.
Publications
Keep Love Real
Authored by Lora Tan-Garcia, Keep Love Real is a spritely read on love and chastity.
In Lora’s words, “Chastity isn’t about what you can’t have and can’t do. It’s so much
bigger and more triumphant than that. It’s actually having the life you’ve always wanted
but perhaps didn’t think you could achieve through chastity...”
Congress Executive Report with Research
The 2nd International Congress on Education in Love, Sex, and Life produced rich resource
materials on character education: from experts worldwide and from a research study involving
4,000 Filipino colleges.
Modules
Based on experiences and data gathered from seminars, I Am S.T.R.O.N.G. and
I Keep Love Real syllabi, modules, lesson plans, and other materials have been
written to help the Department of Education, teachers, and administrators replicate
the same program in their schools and classrooms. As they have been written in straightforward
language, using a clear, logical format, these works have also been distributed to selected students
and seminar participants.
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Janyn Chua Year & Course: II - AB Communication Age: 19 Birthdate: July 19 YM! ID: janynchua Fave Quote: "The adventure continues, miserable but fearless."
Gliza Marasigan Year & Course: II - AB Communication Age: 19 Birthdate: Feb 11 Email: gliza.marasigan@gmail.com Fave Quote: "Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous;
love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly;
it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account
a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with
the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
Erika Valdez Year & Course: II - AB Communication Age: 19 Birthdate: August 4 YM! ID: erikagcv Fave Quote: "Love is a hot shower where your skin never prunes." -John Mayer
Neil Lavalle Year & Course: 5th year MA in Communication Major in Integrated Marketing Communications Age: 21 Birthdate: September 1 Fave Quote: "Love usually comes when you least expect it."
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