Take your time and don't walk blindly into love
February was the season of love. Flowers changed to a vibrant red, match-making shows, dramas and movies about love filled the screens and many longed for their partners to say 'I will always love you'.
Yet, just three days before Valentine's Day, on February 11, Whitney Houston - the woman who made the song I Will Always Love You her signature - left her fans.
Houston had the fame, fortune and talent many long for. But her self-destructive behaviour eventually overshadowed her music.
She admitted her marriage was the tipping point for her slide into drug use. Because of her love for her husband, she agreed to take drugs with him and went through all sorts of physical and emotional ravages. Behind her megastar success, she had intense pain in her turbulent marriage. She once questioned herself: 'Is this love? What is this? What am I into?'
Yes, love can be blind. Therefore, it is imperative to think carefully before entering a relationship.
But it is easy to find our commonsense overcome by the quest for love. Speed-dating services and one-day-only partner services for Valentine's Day are becoming more common. They may be considered helpful to singles in this busy city, but they are commercial businesses.