LOVE

What is love? It is the feeling that changes you. It is one feeling that makes you vulnerable. Love makes you do things you couldn't have imagined doing otherwise. It's a feeling you love and hate with equal intensity. You never want to be in it or any part of it and yet it finds you- incomprehensibly, silently. It happens to the best of us and also the worst. It is a great game, a challenge of sorts as we never know if it is real, if it is going to last or whether we will be duped. All we can really do is try.

What should a person do if one finds oneself on an emotional roller coaster, the ride of a person's life? Should the person accept the challenge and follow one's heart or should the essence of love be kept a secret? How to get out of an emotional mess, if one finds oneself drawn into one anyway? When should one quit? Or should one "Don't stop Believin' "?
Another major challenge is finally accepting that one is in love. When should one admit this to oneself? At what particular instant does obsession turn into love? What demarcates love from random infatuation? There are answers we would never find and questions we would never ask ourselves. Why are we such cowards? Why do we run away from love, from expressing our true emotions? Is ego that huge a deal? Or shall one compromise one's self-respect and dive into the pool of love head long? Is there really ever a rational explanation for feelings? Then again, we find that the nature of love is universal. Probably, something every individual experiences.

It could be a personal feeling or a deep, dark mysterious fantasy. All we know is that if it hurts, stings or affects us in a way no other feeling has before then it is love. Or at least that's what they like to call it.