There's a balloon in your stomach.It keeps inflating and there's nothing you can do to stop it.You break into a smile,quite suddenly and it stays glued to your face all day like you're frozen in a perennial Kodak moment.The skin care product market just lost one consumer,for your face glows like the sun without them,anyway! Horoscopes,tarot cards,numbers all start to matter.Suddenly,your Megadeth and Bhayanak maut loving soul identifies with every cheesy pop song in the history of pop songs.It seems like the lyrics and the songs are tailor made for you.You live in two alternate worlds-the drab real one,and the super cool imaginary one where everything is rainbows and butterflies,and you're walking towards the sunset hand in hand with that special someone.Aah,colours! As Kjo puts it aptly in one of his movies, everything bright and happy like orange,pink,ghastly shades of yellow and even red! start appealing.Your heart accelerates at a million kmph at the mention of one name and even though you're aware that in this day and age,relationships are more like business partnerships and even have a fixed tenure to boot,you don't care! You're a believer.The world is a better place. But before you start wondering whats wrong with you,let me enlighten you.I know what this is.Boss,you're a goner!
It's LOVE! Scaredy cat that you are,though,your rational and conscious mind will refuse to believe it.Step one is accepting that yes,you really,truly are in love.Mostly,people are scared to open their hearts up to this new possibility.WHY?
Yes,there is risk,and there are boulders,thorns,shards of broken glass and hearts on the way but why hold yourself back from feeling it? Take the plunge,immerse yourself in the feeling.Rejoice in it.Embrace it with open arms.Love takes you higher,so fly.
But once you're up there,flying and totally engulfed by the sea of love,do you wonder,what do I do next? Now That's when the flora of the country starts to worry.Flowers will be plucked by the zillion.Petals picked.."Loves me...loves me not..loves me..loves me not".Facebook profiles will be visited every second."Still single...still single...NO!WHAT! Nahi..still single!Phew!".Everything will be analysed.Temples,mosques etc. will be visited.Aah,the suspense!
Then atlast,you profess your love.God forbid,you be jilted!
Then a whole new saga starts unfolding.
Associations of Jilted Lovers wil be joined,experiments with blades will be carried out,names carved on bleeding arms and if you're REALLY a 1990's bollywood fan,onto bleeding torsos("I love you Kiran").You could do a Darr,you could do a Janam Janam ke Saathi,or whatever fluff they doled out in those years.Vodka,desi daru..basically the alcohol sales will plummet enough to account for 20% of the country's industrial output.All in the name of love.
HOLD IT! Wake up,fellas! Snap out of it! Who ever told you that love is easy? What line in the "Rulebook of Life" states that you will have to be loved back in the same way? Noone told you that it will be reciprocated and who said love is all about give and take? And who said to love,you have to be loved? Dears,love is not a simple thing.It's not give-and-take.It's to give,and not to expect anything in return.You care for the other,simply because you do.Making the other person happy,gives you the purest joy.It is selfless.It is unconditional.It is pure and ennobling.It is so many things,yet we stay rigid in our definition.If only there WAS a rule that said yes,you WILL get back what you give.Won't the world be a better place? Heck,there won't even be a genre of music called "Blues". But fret not,and listen up!
There's someone for everyone.So what if you were jilted by one..or maybe more? Doesn't mean you have to give up completely! So what if you care,but the person you care for does not?Doesnt man you have to stop caring altogether! Care,Love,Give! No strings or conditions attatched.
One day,Love will seek you out.Till that day,keep the faith.It could be when you least expect it.Sometimes,you may chose to love.When it is so,you will know.Keep the hope and the dreams.Don't throw it all away.
In this day and age,when relationships are more like business partnerships and even have a fixed tenure to boot,I am a believer.And I play for keeps. :)
Peace and love to all,
Nikita
XoXo
I love the Kal ho na ho waala comparison..
ReplyDeletethe genre blues rocks ....and yes love is abt seeing the other person happy no matter what happpens...Nice post though you are hopping around a lot in your thinking..
Anyways ,zillion times better than ur previous bachpan ka blog..=)
yo!nice post!i love the uncertainty part..totally true..does she like me too?does she consider me to be friends or more?when she holds hands,does it mean somehting?and then after concentrating your hardest at even the most trivial of conversations...was there a hint?if it was,what should i do?but then after days of deliberations when one finally did take the plunge,your post only explored the possibility of unfulfilled love.love reciprocated is the most beautiful thing ever..when you realise she loves you as much as you her and maybe even more..its the most amazing feeling.:)..and even if she loves you as a friend and not what you were hoping for,the friendship will blossom into somehting really special..so its awlays worth taking the plunge,i feel!
ReplyDeleteIT WAS NOT A GAY COMMENT VISH!Maybe you could post on love fulfilled and reciprocated and i could link it to my blog.think about it.Your comment really moved me.Anyway,Sahil,glad you liked it.Haha,growing up only gets funner day by day! ;D didnt get the 'hopping around in your thinking' bit though.:/ and i referred to blues not because i dont like it,but because of the emotion behind it.=)
ReplyDeletewonderfully described evry bit of feelin one goes thru when in love ..hats off... but i disagree with the ending "One day,Love will seek you out.Till that day,keep the faith.It could be when you least expect it." ...u may call me a pessimist ...but not all people find the love of there life ....sooner nor later :P
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