Artistes, songwriters, poets, musicians, actors and actresses all tell the story of love through voice, words, instruments, videos, film, and stage.

It is a story as old as mankind’s history. Yet it never loses its allure, its joys, or its sadness. Yes, it is often a story whose beginning is usually captivating and alluring – but whose ending can be one of triumph…or of turmoil and broken dreams.

The storytellers will come and go, to be replaced by other storytellers, for that is life. As time marches on, new performers and writers replace those whose acts no longer take up front page.

Yet those who replace them tell the same story – perhaps with different instruments or newer technology, or with a freshness that appeals to a newer audience. But the story of love, however novel or old, remains as it has always been – the fusion of two hearts who reach out to each other full of hope and promise, passion and dream.

While the story remains the same, no matter who tells it or what medium is used to tell it, falling in love will always be here to stay. For the human psyche is programmed that way. We seek someone to love, and to be loved in return. We often enter romance throwing caution to the wind, and being enveloped by the object of our heart’s desire, even as that person is enveloped likewise.

So many stories start out shining brightly and optimistically, for who among us will cast a dark shadow when love bowls us over and Cupid’s arrow has done its work?

Perhaps that is why the story of love will never grow old, even if it is told and retold by successive artists. Whatever its final outcome – joyous or tearful – it is a story that most distinguishes us humans from all other living creatures.

For many of us, even if the story does not always have a happy ending, we will keep on dreaming and pursuing, for without love, life will never be what we want it to be.