Love : With valentine's day marked on everyone's calendar, I had to write something about Love. Yes, I love my family,my mom who means the world to me. She defines love and unconditional giving.
But I feel valentine's day is a commercial stunt which makes "Love" sound like the most abused words of today...misunderstood, misinterpreted, casually-used, may have lost its noble demeanour for some of the singles still seeking it:-) Yes,I am talking about the love between a couple... I try to relate to it..understand it,define it..but alas it's intangibility leads me to conclude that it defies all reasoning...
The words that follow are not mine..but somewhere this is the closest I feel to understanding "Love" of this "kind"..I admire the writer's body of work,including his book "Coraline" which is in my collection..For now,here's his take on Love:
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable.It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.
