Infatuation can spark a desire for closeness, which may sometimes grow into love and as such a relationship is born. When love is consummated, and the two parties have run short of ways to desire each other, thrust is the essence that keeps the relationship going. No matter how strong or original a relationship may seem, when thrust is not the commanding factor, the age of that relationship is as short as it started. Before you place three nails on my palms and my feet and stick me to the cross, tell me what keeps you going when your partner picks a phone call and excuses for privacy or stays out late or sing the praise of their secretary or boss or delay important meetings, dates and dinner? Don’t be in a hurry to convince yourself that that it’s all love because love as we all know it is a strong bond. No matter how or where or to whom, it’s always strong. Like every other bond we know, they always break when other forces pull them apart. Any bond that lasts, does so not because of the union but because something kept the bond stronger. Let’s get practical, shall we;
Pour some vegetable oil into a pot and add some water.
-That is when two different people meet.
Stir the liquid vigorously.
-That’s when they fall in love.
Take out your stirring spoon and watch the liquid before it settles.
-That’s how long the love lasts.
Place the pot on a fire and watch it boil.
-That’s thrust, keeping two immiscible liquids together.
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After stirring, let the turmoil in the pot settle to separate oil and water.
-That is when thrust is absent.
You will see the liquids as they originally are. Separate and different. In a relationship, that is when we begin to see how different we were before we fell in love. I guess that was how they coined that popular quote ‘we are our having differences’. Quote me wrong when I say “thrust is that something that keeps the strength of the bond when we love”. Love or infatuation blinds two different people to come together, love keeps them together but thrust keeps them going.
