Love or something like that

Today I am going to write about something I don't even have much insight into. I wrote a post on relationships some time back. My perspective on it. Today I will write on love .. just the emotion. I will try to explain what it is and I know I will fail miserably. It takes a thousand ghalibs to explain it. But I still want to :)

I feel love is like a state. But before that its like this transition. You don't see it happening in you, but it happens and you look in the mirror after sometime and you see a different person. Love has this great power to make you happy. And with happiness comes a lot of other things in life. Belief in another person is one. Now this is a great feeling in itself. In this world full of cynicism, betrayal, you start trusting a person more than even yourself. At first you find it funny, but slowly it becomes a state of mind. This trust can do wonders to you. You start looking at life in a new way. All the bad things stop mattering or don't matter that much. As put beautifully in "Shall we dance", your life starts mattering to someone. So even the mundane things become romantic all of a sudden. Life does not change as such. You still go to work, drive through the crazy traffic, but then one day you realize that you are not cursing the bad traffic enough. You wonder whats wrong .. or is the world a better place ... its not .. its just you. You are in love ....

Another interesting thing happens in love. It happens more so if your partner shares an interest for the things you like. You always liked things; but those things being liked by someone else is like this invisible bond between the two of you. You can call it "having same taste", but then you know its a much deeper emotion. Everytime a song plays on the radio and the two of you look at each other with the "I know ... ain't that song great" look, you know you are in love.

However there are many example to suggest that this is not necessary. I think it has more to do with the fact that you want to do things together. In fact you do not even have to do things together. All you really want to do is be together. Be together to witness the moments in each other's life. It could be one of you playing a song on the guitar or making a great dish or even something geeky. Does not matter what it is. All that matters is that you feel proud of the other person and you can see it in the other person's eyes how much it matters to them that you are there to appreciate something they did. In fact in love it all comes so naturally. Your partner doing something that you always wanted to do or found impossible is like you doing it. I guess thats why they call them "your better half". In a true sense two people in love complete each other, as well as they can. Thats the spirit. That should be the spirit.

There are lots of other nice things in love. There are some not so nice things too. Anything that gives you so much happiness can give you a lot of pain too. But then I love the spirit that two ppl have in love to get out of their problems. The lack of 'i-have-had-enuf' attitude is what makes love such a great emotion. Relationships still break. But then I feel you should be seriously asking if there was ever a 'i-want-to-make-it-work' attitude and if there was .. where did you screw up. I think love in all forms can be a great teacher. Its an education for life. It teaches you how to find the most valuable thing in life and how to keep it. How to cherish it and
how to make sure it gets better over time and so do you.

As a friend once told me "Love is like God; its existence can always be questioned. Its your belief that really matter". I guess thats love for me as i feel it right now. Nothing makes sense ???? you were warned :)

Welcome 2007

2006 finished on a not so pleasant note. 2007 arrived in the most beautiful way but has been not so obliging since then. But then this is a long year. Somethings were expected and the unexpected things add spice to life and also are like an exam. I think I will manage through ... I think "we" will :)

Here is wishing everyone "A Happy New Year"