| "Tis better to have loved and lost | | | | man-woman, brother-sister, God-devotee. |
| Than never to have loved at all." | | | | You know you are in love when you feel the influence |
| - Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem In Memoriam: 27, 1850 | | | | of another person is more imposing on your thought |
| People, through the centuries, have wondered aloud, | | | | process than your own ideas and opinions. You start |
| and otherwise, their thoughts on the four letter word | | | | thinking in terms of the person you are in love with. |
| that encapsulates a tempest in a tea-cup. They have | | | | You want to make yourself worthy of that person, |
| boasted of theories and jumped to conclusions. They | | | | placing that person on the higher pedestal always. You |
| have dug up the roots of the human body and mind to | | | | are always in doubt as to what you should do to |
| come up with satisfactory answers. They have | | | | make him or her happy and what you should not. You |
| conducted experiments, organized discussions, pooled | | | | are willing to take the hurt and blame on yourself |
| opinions, studied behavioral pie-charts and tried in every | | | | rather than let your loved one crease forehead in |
| which way to describe the feeling of love. Yet the | | | | worry. You feel the whole world is against you and no |
| same people get boggled when confronted with the | | | | one is your friend. You live in a world of your own |
| same predicament in their own lives. So what is love? | | | | where entry is restricted only to people who |
| The definition of love is like a secluded island, deep in | | | | understand the value of that world. |
| the heart of the sea. Anyone trying to reach can only | | | | "Who wants a cynic who knows the price of |
| come close but cannot touch land. Similarly you can | | | | everything and the value of nothing?"- asked Oscar |
| only 'try' to define love; your definition may be correct | | | | Wilde. The meaning of love cannot be explained to the |
| to an extent but it can never hit the bull's eye. The | | | | cynics; if you have it in you, you grasp the meaning |
| reason is not your incompetence; it is just that the | | | | without a word being spoken. If you do not feel the |
| definition is in the perception of the person trying to | | | | warmth melting your heart, no one can drill it into the |
| define it and perceptions vary. So, instead of trying to | | | | frigid interiors of your soul. Love is what makes two |
| do the impossible, lets just dwell on the flavor of love | | | | persons sit close to each other on a bench, when |
| and forget the recipe behind it! | | | | there's plenty of space on the sides. Love is when |
| Love is a word that captures the essence of both the | | | | they walk off separate ways, without speaking a |
| profound and the profane. Love songs and ballads | | | | word all along, and still feel they have had the best |
| seem melodious to the person who has not been in a | | | | conversation of their life. Love is also like the sand that |
| man-woman relationship also. In fact, limiting the facets | | | | slips through your fingers the more you try to grab it |
| of love in the confines of the words 'I Love You' is | | | | tighter. So express your love to your loved ones by |
| shutting out its aura to a great extent. You cannot | | | | free love greetings and love cards now. Tomorrow |
| determine which form of love is purer: child-mother, | | | | may not come with the same streak of luck! |