What is love? A question I believe, haunting three-fourth of the world’s population… Its not like I’ve set out to answer the question or anything but… really isn’t it something to think about? I mean the word ‘love’ comes in so many contexts… ok I say I love my dog…(which in fact I do- she’s a sweetheart) some say I love my job, I love my mom, I love my life, I love this place…etc…. and then the big cliché’ that two so called lovers say to each other… “I love you” .

So what exactly could this ‘love’ be? Is it some overbearing sentiment you feel for some people more than you do for the others? Growing up reading countless novels filled with notions of eternal love and all that sort of crap, in my teens I actually believed that a knight in shining armor really existed…and as in the stories, everything ended with a “happily ever after” too but as life took its course, I came to know that what was written in the novels were nothing but the fantasies of writers who tried to provide an escape from the real world.

Personally, I would rather live in a book; at any rate it has a definite ending and a clean plot. All characters well defined and all moving according to a definite script. Well forget about all that, all this while, I always thought that love was something “forever” or “eternal” or whatever but of late that whole concept has been jeopardized in my life. Just consider this example, like I have this friend ‘B’ and he loves this girl ‘I’ well he told that they had got together once then the girl broke up with him because of some cast differences.. She was this Brahmin gal and he was not of the same caste. They didn’t speak for a year and half I think and eventually this girl rings him up and the stupid gullible guy falls for it and gets back together with her again. Well the guy falls head over heels in love with her all over again and is sure he wants to marry her but the girl flat out refused, saying it wasn’t going to happen.

As some saying goes love is blind, I could evidently observe it in his case. Now being a friend what was I supposed to do? I advised him with all perseverance: “dear pal, this girl is the devil, stay away from this trap called love, you are gonna be destroyed”. After that I realized one more thing “love is not only blind it’s deaf too!” Because I doubt if he even heard what I said. I don’t know if I was right or wrong but I said what my instincts told me. The guy’s story as of now doesn’t have an ending but I hope for his sake that it is a good one.

All around me I see so many affairs where guys and girls supposedly fall in love and when they tire of each other, they break up and the guy finds another girl and the girl another guy. For me though, it appears to be nothing but a world of lies and deceit. however is it love? I don’t know. I don’t think anyone will ever know or is there anyone who does?.. Hmmm…quiet a thought…… Nevertheless I wish to hang on to my archaic ideas that have gotten deep-rooted into my mind. Even now I long to believe that a knight in shining armor does indeed exist and prove everything around me wrong. Maybe this is the very thread of hope that every one on this planet clings on to……

Oh! Almost Forgot! Happy Valentine's Day WORLD!! ;)