The "locks of love" are locks that couples around the world place in bridges or public infrastructure to symbolize their eternal love. This custom was born in Pécs (Hungary) in the 19th century; There, the garrison soldiers in the city left the lock that closed the closet of their room. Fashion began to spread from 2000 in the big tourist cities of the world, such as London, Paris, New York, Florence, Venice, Seoul ...
In the case of Paris, where is the photograph headed by the article, the place chosen by lovers was initially the bridge of the arts, to continue extending along the bridge of L'Archevêché, the Solférino bridge (near Notre Dame) and the Simone de Beauvoir catwalk. These locks usually have registered the names of those who swore eternal love and sometimes have huge metal hearts. After binding the lock, the key is usually thrown into the Seine River.
But this ritual generates some inconveniences, and it is that these promises of love in the form of thousands and thousands of steel… They weigh too much! Sometimes, certain parts of the railings sink, which entails the regular replacement of tired pieces. This same summer has been necessary to replace several pieces of railing twisted by the weight of the locks.
How poor and sad metaphor of love is a lock. It seems difficult to find an image that expresses worse what love should be between two people: a closed lock in a railing, whose key is thrown into the river. That is: a prison, an confinement, a total resignation to personal freedom.
No one would like, if they asked him, to have such a relationship. And yet, many times we run the danger of turning a love into a prison, because we believe that a right of the lover is the possession of the other. "I love you just for me," you hear sometimes: what a more serious mistake. It is essential that each one has their own friends, their own fun, their moments for him or her. Sting says in a song: "If you love topody, Set Them Free" (if you love someone, let it be free).
It was locks, then. Out keys. Because if not, the weight of these locks is so great and so overwhelming, that as much as the couple intends to build bridges that the Unan, those bridges are going to sink. Set Them Free.
