There Is No Price for Love!

I happened to watch a movie named SHILOH today. The story is about a boy who does every thing that he could and beyond for a dog that he loves so much! A dialogue from a vet who attends to the dog touched my heart:

“Sometimes, the greatest test of love is in how much you are willing to fight for it!”

Lovely lines and the man who wrote the story and dialogues must have written them from his heart. Everyday we tell someone sometime that we love them. We also keep declaring our love for something or other at all times – I love honesty, truth, friendship, the poor and down trodden, etc, etc. But at the end of the day, we mostly end up just mouthing these words without doing at least our bit, when situations so demand. Perhaps what we lack is courage and conviction that we must actually do some thing about what we say we love. No one man can change the world. But what we can is to do something that we can, to stand for what we love in our own little ways. I came across this story in one of the mails that a friend sent:

An old farmer had a brood of puppies and decided to put them on sale. “50 cents, for the cuddly little pups!” said his board nailed on to the fence at his farm. The next day, he found a little boy, his face pressed on to the fence, eagerly listening to the yelps of the young ones inside the kennel.

‘Want to see?’ asked the farmer. The kid’s eyes widened with excitement and head nodded with expectation.

‘Come on Dolly’, said the farmer, opening the door of the kennel. Out came the mother followed by her brood, yelping jumping and rolling down the ramp. Real joyful bundles of fur!

The kid kept watching, his eyes wide with joy and excitement. After the five – six of them rolled down, there came a whimper and struggle. Another pup appeared at the ramp. The kid kept looking. This one was not sure how to place his legs and in the clumsy attempt that he made, lost his balance and fell to the ground with a thud.

‘Oh, poor darling’, said the farmer, helping the pup to stand on his legs. As he looked up, he saw the kid stretch his hands through the fence, beckoning the lame pup to come to him.

‘You wouldn’t want him’, exclaimed the old man, ‘he won’t be able to run like others!’

‘Neither can I’, said the kid pulling a sleeve of his pants revealing the artificial leg below. ‘I think we will make good company’!

The old man kept looking at the kid, his eyes misted. As he picked up the pup to give it to the kid, the kid stretched out his hand and said, ‘but I have only 30 cents?’

The old farmer gently pushed the kid’s hand back saying, “there is no money for love”    

There is NO PRICE TAG ON LOVE!