Is it okay to fall in love with your enemy?

It was asked on a popular social media platform. They had a set of characters who went through different edges of beliefs, circumstances and experiences. Eventually, they fall in love. “And is it okay?” They asked.

Why not!

I have been trying to decode love for years, and I claim myself to be the greatest advocate and critique at the same time. As per my belief, “love is purest of all and can be deceived and depicted easily.” And if we put aside the manipulations, the conditions and the doubts, then each human being can love despite anything. One doesn’t have to be in positions similar to love the other. One needs to be willing to.

But first, what is love?

I have come across to love as being subjective. Its inability to form a concrete shape emotionally or verbally or physically has caused great distress in people who’ve been trying to understand it.

Some say it’s the companionship. Some say it just happens and cause great joy. Some claim it to be pain and some others are still confused. Love is blind, or everything is fair at love, and so on. I say “love is peace.” Love has the power that empowers you, to feel or not at all. It’s contentment I don’t mean to go to the spiritual side. At least of it, love allows you to see.

So did they.

Let me clarify of the characters first: they aren’t enemies as of the definition, “One who feels hatred toward, intends injury to, or opposes another; a foe.” But rivals, as in they both compete for something. A thing that they feel will secure them, in the way to achieving it, they cross each others path. There without any prior background knowledge, they see each other as a threat, and here they don’t hate the other or intend to harm. Instead, they are guarding themselves. It happens all around the animal kingdom right!

Now let’s see where the characters have come off.

Since they are two different beings, they have a set of beliefs imposed on them. They have a different set of experience, the ability to comprehend things. Completely untouched by one to another, they have absolutely no idea of where the another come from, and the only thing in common is their desire for security. The one thing they are competing for, the exact thing that caused them to be rivals.

Of nothing in the entire world, the one common ground is enough for anyone to equate.

To love, you need nothing. Yet to connect, there’s one thing both desire. A position both understand. It develops empathy. One who can love can empathize.

So the question: Is it okay to fall in love with your enemy?

You can’t. You can never fall in love with your enemy, as long as you are some god. Even god killed their enemies.

But you can always fall in love with your rivals, sympathize them and if the joint effort helps to get to the absolute goal, do it. Create a pact and rule together.