If you need any proof that true love is out there, it's to be found not in the pages of a cheap romance novel or the smile of a chick flict actor but all around us.
In a zoo in India a female elephant watched her cage mate die while giving birth to a stillborn calf. She stood stock still for a long time until her legs eventually gave way. For three weeks she lay in one spot with her trunk curled up, her ears drooping and her eyes moist. No matter how hard they tried, her keepers could not persuade her to eat. They watched her slowly starve herself to death.
The female crab has an impenetrable shell, she is so hard on the outside and yet so soft within. There is no possible point of access. The male crab must wait a whole year until the female decides to shed her shell to grow a new one. And it is only at that moment of vulnerability that the patient crab can triumph in his love.
Every year the Artic Tern undertakes an epic love journey. After sojourning in the Antartic it circumnavigates the globe to breed in the Artic.
Inspiration is to be found everywhere, it is simply a matter of looking for it.
A bit soppy? Perhaps, but it is nearing Valentines Day and a girl is allowed to get a little doe eyed.
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