Love is all around me ......

"Whenever I get gloomy with the stage of the world, I think about the arrival stage at the Heathrow airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed - but I don't see that - seems to me that love is everywhere. Often is not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there. Fathers and sons, mothers and daughthers, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, oldfriends ....When the planes hit the twin towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board where messages of hate or revenge. They were all all messages of love. If you look for it, I have got a sneaky feeling, you will find that love actually!!"

- Opening lines in the Richard Curtis's masterpiece "Love Actually"

Last couple of days I had been meditating a lot on this topic and thought this was the right time to put it up for a discussion! So here it goes!

What is "LOVE"? .. To me its something holy. Something which is as great as life itself. Something which takes time to grow and you would never know that it has been there. Its not something that you can deny and not something that happens just overnight. They say, "People fall in love"! To me you can never fall in love as it is something that elevates you! They say "Love is blind", but how can it be for it opens your eyes! But they also say, "Love forgives all" and that "Love lasts"!

Is the taken-for-granted feeling with friends, the unending questions of girlfriends, the wheedles with mom and dad, the fights with bro, the tirades of granma, the pranks on my sis, the pampering of my aunts, love? If not love whats it? Affection, maybe! But how is affection different from love? -- I don't know!

People around me have been falling in and out of love, but is that love at the first place?! Or is it simply the attraction you feel for someone you are close to. How do you know you are in love? Or should you even care to know it? Is there anything like love-at-first-sight!? But how can there be such a thing for you need to know your love first! And should you try to fall in love? But how can you for "Love happens"! The whole funda is just too complex to its core, and they say "Love is simple!".. Haaaah! maybe I am too simple to get the complexity of this four lettered word! Maybe I should give time teach me the lessons of love, or maybe I should wait till "Love strikes"! I think I'll "Just sit back and relax. Love will just happen!".

I don't know what enthused me to write this blog! But it was something that was surging in me for quite sometime and I thought that blog was the best place to express them. The context of the blog have been people around me, some in my family, some in my close friend circle, and my life as I see it!

"Don't say you love somebody and then change your mind ... Love isn't like picking what movie you want to watch."

-------- Natalie, age 9. Love Quotes