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You want to know if the heart of a man or woman can contain enough love for more than one person?”

 

                One of the lines that I will never forget from Paulo Coelho’s novel, The Zahir. Jologs as it may sound but I had this random idea because I watched “Sana Dalawa Ang Puso Ko” two nights ago. Haha! :) I know that it’s a little old-fashioned to relish the company of vintage Filipino films and I haven’t had the slightest hint that I would find it both enjoyable and interesting.

                In a nutshell, the movie was about a guy (Rustom Padilla) who falls in love with a girl (Alice Dixon) weeks before he was bound to marry a long-time long-distance fiancée (Dina Bonnevie). After their wedding, his wife had to go back to the States because of work, thus, he continuous his affair with his mistress while his wife was working abroad. Later, the wife knew about it and filed a case against him. Typical, yes it is. But it’s the commonplace situations that we barely scrutinize.

So how was it resolved? At first, the wife made him choose between her and the mistress and he chose the mistress. So the case moved about, the wife as the protagonist and the husband as the antagonist of the story. She asked for him to come back because she would have forgiven him right then and there but he chose not to because he knew who it was that he loved more. Finally, the wife realized that even though she wins the case and sends her husband to jail, she wouldn’t really end up happy. She gave him his freedom, annulled their wedding and went back to the Sates.

For an individual with deep regard for morality, a married person having an affair with someone else is a taboo. Much more, it’s an unforgivable sin. But we live in a time wherein those things are no longer bizarre. This isn’t what I’d like to tackle about but just so everyone gets a clear picture of the scenario.

Going back to the derivation of this write-up, my answer is yes. It’s possible that the heart of a man or woman can contain enough love for more than one person. If we were the luckiest person alive, we wouldn’t have to go through all the trouble of falling in love with more than one person. We could find the one meant for us in just a single try. But not all of us are lucky to have that fate.

 Those who have fallen in love more than once would more or less agree to my stance. I used to believe that the idea of having one’s one great love is true. For some, they might still consider that. But I don’t anymore. One love in one lifetime. That’s what I believe in now. We can love as many people as we want with the same intensity but it’s not possible to love these people in a single lifetime. There will always be one the stands out of among the others. One of them is more loved.

Like the changing of seasons, people will come and go. We will fall in love and fall out of live with them as much as our hearts will permit us to do so. Our hearts can contain enough love for a million people but it is only capable of loving one person in one lifetime.