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