Rising in love

Now that's not a topic you expected in this blog, is it?

Well, I am in love with love.  And by love, I am not referring to the love for family and friends and pets.  I mean very much the love that most of the best films of Bollywood and Hollywood are all about, the love of Notting Hill and Love Actually and Dil To Pagal Hai. 

Love is the most powerful feeling we can feel.  It energizes us to change the world, and more importantly, change our own selves.  It is something the richest and most powerful person will plead for and feel desperate without.  It is something the most mature person will act foolishly for, and still be happy about.  It is simple, it is obvious, yet it is impossible to explain to someone who has never felt it.

The point I wish to make today to you, reader, is - enjoy this feeling, make the most out of it, don't shy away from it.  Allow the force of love for your girlfriend or boyfriend or spouse to change you.  Allow it to shape you into a decent, caring, thoughtful being.  If you feel like pampering the one you love, don't hesitate, put in all your creativity and effort to make him/her smile.  Don't put checks on yourself, don't evaluate his/her reactions or analyze their feelings, just enjoy doing your part.

Indeed, there are chances of misunderstanding love for simple sexual attraction or desperation to choose a mate.  Well, there is a clear way to identify love - the feeling should intensely motivate you to become a better person, strengthen your character & integrity, sharpen your talents.  If it drives you to lie and do things your conscience bites you about, you're on the wrong track - it isn't love, or it's misguided love.  Love should make you rise.  It should make you do better in every aspect of life - it will have plenty of positive side effects, be warned...

I am convinced that love is a feeling that is truly divine.  I believe so because it is beyond our control - we cannot fake or simulate the feeling, it just happens to us.  Because it is plainly impossible to ignore and forget, no matter how hard we try.  And because it is something that your conscience doesn't disagree with, even if your brain might.

So don't miss out on this lovely feeling, when it comes for you.  Don't give up on it, no matter how hard you think it will be to materialize it.  Yes, remember to apply the test of "rising" or "falling" to check if you are actually in love, when you start having this feeling.

And finally, to those of you who believe you're in love - with your bf/gf, with your spouse (or someone else's), remember that your love story doesn't end in marriage or a break-up.  You retain the privilege and joy of loving much beyond that; all your life.  Don't let your daily crises de-sensitize you from this divine feeling.  Always remain in love with love!

I <3 <3  ;)