Love

Think. For a moment, think what life would be without love. Quick thinking, I’d say – a huge commercial loss for planet earth:). Excluding, the pseudo face of this commercialism, given our time and age, does the emotion called love truly exist? Recently, a good friend of mine, asked me a question - “Sandhya, “according to you” what is…love?” hmm..interesting question, I thought. Interesting, not because it was an “out of this world” topic; interesting because, the answer to that question has constantly evolved and varied over time, with the end result being “I don’t know..not too sure..its a feeling..hmm..cant explain”. Today, for a change, I comprehend; the answer to this sketchy question is finally visible to me.

Everyone has definitely, atleast once in their life, felt differently about someone; the eternal feeling of someone being special to them. To me, how long can one be special, given the tests of time, is the true answer to love. No one is perfect, and over time, everybody discovers atleast one reason to find that person you once thought was special and perfect; now, less than perfect, annoying, lackluster, or simply human in nature:). Being the realist that I am, to me, the true test of love lies in being able to rediscover time and again, as to why you coined this person special to begin with. This reminds me of something Tagore quoted; “I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.” Truly, eternal love is seriously being able to love someone in different forms, over time, today, until the end of time (as philosophical as it may sound!). So whatever it is, that made you fall in love for the first time, let it be the way he says hello, or the way he makes you laugh, or the way he yells at you, or the way he has an explanation for everything under the sun, or the way his name automatically makes you smile, or the way he clumsily apologizes when he knows he’s at fault, remember what it was; always.

So, here’s a toast to all those in love, encouragement to those seeking love and enlightenment to those rediscovering love :)