Understanding Love
Everyday we see around, people in this world perceive love very differently. Why look at people, take the case of ourselves. Even for us at many moments, the definition of love keeps on changing. When we are learning to grow, our love for little things to be possessed. Be it a pencil set or a crayon book, we simply love it and want it at any cost. Then we go a little further in life and see a bit more. It is friends and grades that we really love and want them. Moving ahead in life when we enter our corporate lives, it is our appraisals and the money that we really love and want. Sometimes, it just beckons that it is peace that we really love and having some of it in life would be very nice. Some people go for that zest in life of doing something new everyday that they love and want it so bad.
Whoever we are, whatever we do, at some stage or some point in our lives, we have that feeling of loving something or someone that we want real bad and life seems so incomplete without that thing or that person. You see, desire and love are two separate words that could be used in this context. We desire to posses a lot of things that we love, but, it is seldom the other way round. This temporary feeling of having someone/something new in our life is often confused for love. Love is the most difficult four letter word to understand and sustain. Taking the above mentioned examples further, let us focus on love, the feeling for a person and leave out the materialistic context as the humane part can be generalized on to the materialistic context.
The day I first met her, a rush of blood usually perceived as love took over me. I thought this is the most ultimate one can feel and maybe this is what they call love. Going a little further in life, all those little first time moments, going out together, dining , everything brought on a better new feeling than the first time. Then I thought, may be this is what they call love. Seven years on and every other day as we stay together and learn about each other, a new satisfaction surfaces of knowing her and doing things as per her anticipation to see those little moments of smile that make your day, now I feel, maybe, this is called love. A lot of people use the phrase, "maybe we are not in love anymore" very ignorantly.
Love for any one or anything is not just an instance. It is a process. It is a way of living if you can think of it that way. You can never love someone today and not love them tomorrow. If you have truly loved them, then you just love them .Love tests you for patience and understanding. If requires you to sustain and practice. And believe me, love never disappoints. Anyone who has been there would know the weight of the words "I love you" told with true heart. It may be your friend/girlfriend/wife/family/pets any thing or anybody in this world. "Love" , does not need prefixes like "True", "selfless" etc as it already imbibes all those values failing which, Love would not be called so.
