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Is wearing your heart on your sleeves enough?

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My friend Stanley is someone I look up to when it comes to issues of love and romance, he is very explicit with his emotions, sometimes I feel its too much, such effusive display of affection has yet been known to men like me. Once he is in love it exudes from every faucet of his body, eyes, mouth, hands, breath, its quite palpable. I often say to myself, will I ever achieve this, because as an introvert in transition, we take more time testing the waters than getting in. As admirable as his gestures may be, it always seems never to be enough as the inevitable breakup is always lurking in the shadows. This further worsening my precarious unromantic state of life. Are relationships rocket science? What requirements would be considered enough? because from where I stand its a really tall order. So, late last year, my living version of Romeo meets his Juliet at a wedding, I would like to down play the whole event as, it was the usual occurrence, but this was far from it,

A glimpse of heaven.

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This phrase is synonymous with ecstasy... not the drug, but the word. its an experience we would pay any price to have day in day out, its the source of all addictions. Its appeals to our hedonistic nature, its pursuance is constant. but here is the question I pose to you today. What does heaven look like? Our biology will allude this description to the interplay of hormones at various parts of our brains' at certain points in time, which generates the euphoria that we qualify as heaven. this intricate, internal workings is stimulated by external stimuli which comes in various forms. Everyone has a source of such stimuli, it spans from unitary activities such as listening to music, poetry, carousing, smoking to multiperson activities, sports, hangouts, sex etc. Whichever yours may be it serves as an oasis of wellness. As indulging as any of these may be they still fall short of the mark. The greatest vista of heaven can only be gotten through Love. If it were a drug it wo