Prove it

"Andy Lau offers 10,000-square-foot bungalow SGD1.5m house as wedding gift" screamed the rolling headlines on Yahoo Singapore this morning.

Here's my take on this: objects, gifts and other stuff are not love, nor do they prove love.

Love gives itself. Love can exist in financial poverty. It is no way dependent on stuff. Sure, love can and often does prompt a tangible expression, such as a gift. But love is not an exercise in bartering.

I bought ACE a Geronimo Stilton book because I love him, not to prove I love him. He may not have discerned the difference at the time. As he grows, I think he will understand.