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.
8 comments:
Its so apt how the autor has defined love.. Fabulous!!
BEST LOVE HATE LETTER :-
I want 2 thank u 4 all da luv, happiness, pain nd the tears u have brought into my life.U were dere with me through it all, but now u're gone. I don really understand y u chose to do what u did, knowing how much I luved u at one point in time. I was always dre 4 u, no matter wat nd evn after u cheated on me and broke my heart into a million pieces I still tried to make it wrk. I was hopelessly in luv wid u, and even though I still luv u,I finally hav da strength to move on. I always thought it tuk very strong person to hold on, but I finally realized it takes an evn stronger person to let go.So, I guess 2day I hav to b tht stronger person.
U hurt me I can still feel pain of every word u told me most especially whn u weren't sure if you still loved me. I still cry whn I remember u, still hav sleepless nights, still wake up on early morning - times u call me to say I miss u or u love me …Whre hav gone all those promises u once said huh??I guess promises r really made to b broken. You made me believe that.Anywayz i knw dis letter wont bring any chnge on u .........be happy alwayz....
Yours Lovingly........
where did u get this letter kirti ? or did you write it ? :-)
How does one write about something which he/she has not experienced ?
@aditya : If one had to write only what one has experienced..the genre of "fiction" would never exist.
Like I said, it's my take on love..any other information cannot be disclosed in a public forum..maybe the next time we catch up :-)
@ Aditya: Not all love stories have a happy ending and not all happy endings are a result of love...plus, how can one comment on someone else's life without sufficient information? ;)
Hey aks...i didnt say love stories need to be goody goody at the end...plus yes I agree I should refrain from commenting if I dont know...But isnt that the point..To know the uknown, you provoke the unknown ?
@ Aditya: In that case, I agree with Shubhra that we should catch up :)
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