Love Equation

Awhile back, someone gave me something that look sort-of like an equation to love. According to this person:

Relationship will leads to sex;
No relationship = No sex
No sex = No good communication
No good communication= No love
No love = No trust
No trust = No marriage
No marriage= No kid
No kid = No responsibility
No responsibility = No happy life

Seemingly weird, I told another friend of mine about the equation and asked for his opinion, I got another equation:

No sex = No long term relationship
No long term relationship = No communications
No communication = No trust/love

I guess to different people, the equation might be different, but here's what I think:

Love is not exactly an equation but a procedure. It's like baking a cake. You have your ingredients, your recipe to follow and with the right timing, you'll have yourself a successful, presentable and (most importantly) edible cake.

You can choose not to follow the recipe, but there's a high chance your cake might not come out like the picture in your recipe book. Heck, sometimes even if you follow the procedure, your cake might not turn out the way you want it to be! On rare occasions, some can bake the best cake in the world with just one try; others will have to try and try again before the perfect cake is baked.

Love is like that. If you fail, you try again, and again (if you have to), until you get it right.

You might take a few short cuts here and there and cheat a little bit in the amount of ingredients you use, hoping that your cake will still come out the same. Sometimes it does, some times it doesn't.

To me, the procedure works this way:

First the avowal, the date, the holding hands, the inevitable kiss,
more dates, and more kisses, and then, when the time is right, sex.

As long as the procedure is right, it doesn't matter whether there’s a happy ending in the end. Of course, if there is, all the better.

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