To me the line above says it all. Love is the very essence of our exis­tence, a well-​​known fact and here lies the biggest para­dox of our lives. Love is some­thing we can­not live with­out and yet, it is known to mankind as the sin­gle dead­liest dis­ease hav­ing claimed max­i­mum num­ber of lives. Love like all viruses can be found every­where and in every­thing. Some­where, some­time this heart wreck­ing dis­ease has struck us all, tak­ing us by sur­prise. Its symp­toms dur­ing the incu­ba­tion period are prac­ti­cally invis­i­ble to the human mind and often work­ing asymptomatic-​​ally. By the time the symp­toms become evi­dent, Love has already spread its venom into the very fab­ric of our being. It con­trols us. We are gov­erned by Love.

Any per­son who has just awak­ened to the emo­tion of Love goes through by now famous, 5 Stages of Grief. Believe you me a per­son has a lot of grief all through the stages — Denial, Anger, Bar­gain­ing, Depres­sion and finally into Acceptance.

Of course the Denial stage – we have been through this – we want to hide it, deny it, and we would say to our­selves “I feel fine.” “This can’t be hap­pen­ing, not to me.” The Cupid’s jagged arrow immersed in the most vicious poi­son known – Love – has wounded us.

This is fol­lowed by Anger – Anger at every­body, at every­thing rip­ping right through our heart. We ask our­selves our god time and time again. Why me? It’s not fair!” “How can this hap­pen to me?”; “Who is to blame?” quiet clearly we find our­selves in a no man’s land with no answer.

“Just a pass­ing phase” “I am going to get out of it soon, just hang in there” “I will give my life sav­ings to get out of this…” The grow­ing con­flicts within our con­scious­ness and the idea of it fast approach­ing like a bul­let train scares the hell out of us and drains us men­tally and emo­tion­ally in every which way possible.

Depres­sion is a stage of com­plete dis­il­lu­sion­ment “I’m so much in love, why bother with any­thing?”; “I’m going to … What’s the point?”; “I miss her, why go on?” why not just accept it and move on. The remain­ing strength also finally gives in. It is immi­nent; the writ­ing is on the wall. We become reclu­sive seek­ing answers from the beyond.

“I can’t fight it, I may as well pre­pare for it.” Yes we have now accepted the uni­ver­sally known truth of mankind – Love leaves no one. This final stage comes with peace and under­stand­ing of the emo­tion of love that is fast approach­ing. This marks the end of our jour­ney from denial to accep­tance. We are vic­tims, we have tested pos­i­tive for Love.

The moments of love, one can­not for­get. No mat­ter how much water has flown down the Nile some­where in the cor­ner of our heart we still keep the moments locked and safe as a pre­cious gem, tak­ing it out some­times to admire its beauty, either to show it to the world or to see for our­selves that we have not lost it. We cher­ish those moments. The moment might pass by but its mem­o­ries stays with us till our last breath.

Love is a won­der­ful expe­ri­ence, which can­not be expressed but only be felt. A per­son can under­stand it only by falling in love him­self. No words our enough to express love, yet it needs to be expressed, given some kind of expres­sion to tell the per­son whom we love, that yes we do. Three words just three words-​​“ I love you” changes the way we see this world. We enter a whole new world.

Love is an emo­tion, which is beyond words. In fact, Love is one emo­tion that can sim­u­late all our senses and con­jure up a range of emo­tions, all at the same time. Love is an expe­ri­ence, which can only be gained by falling in love. No words our enough to express Love, yet it needs to be expressed. No method of com­mu­ni­ca­tion has the power to con­vey the true feel­ing of Love and yet it needs to be expressed. Three words just three words– “I love you” changes the way we see this world. We enter a whole new world — Wait­ing for us to explore.

But, Love is not just an emo­tion but also a bond. Love brings two hearts together. Love touches the Soul. Love is the purest thing. This rela­tion­ship built on the foun­da­tion of Love is stronger then any other rela­tion. Love does not yearn to be rec­i­p­ro­cated and that is the beauty of True Love.

Many peo­ple have writ­ten many things about love, said about love, but by their own admit­tance have not been able to com­pre­hend it or been able to put to words the feel­ing or the emo­tion that one goes through when in love. Yet what they say about Love is not wrong, it is how they have per­ceived it and to a great extent are right in their per­cep­tion of Love. There are numer­ous exam­ples of love sto­ries around the world, each mag­nif­i­cent, pow­er­ful and mag­i­cal in their own right. Love always wins no mat­ter what the situation.

Do you remem­ber the first time you saw her? The first time your eyes met? The first time you touched her? The moment your heart skipped a beat? One can never for­get these Moments. No mat­ter, how much water has flown down the Nile, some­where, in the cor­ner of our heart, we still keep these Moments locked and safe as a pre­cious gem, tak­ing it out some­times to admire its beauty or some­times to remind our­selves of the feel­ing and emo­tions that we went through when in Love. We cher­ish these moments.

The things peo­ple do in love are sim­ple amaz­ing. A lot of them seem fool­ish now and yet these are the ones we most cher­ish. Climb­ing up a bal­cony, writ­ing names end­lessly at the back of our note­books, strik­ing alpha­bets while play­ing FLAMES, pick­ing rose petals on “she loves me” or “she loves me not”. To be hon­est those moments of fool­ish­ness do seem quiet roman­tic at that time. Think­ing now about these moments, only brings a smile to my face. As for the beau­ti­ful moments they never die out, they are painted for pos­ter­ity on the can­vas of our heart.

Love is an emo­tion every­body wants to expe­ri­ence, every­body wants to fall in love and be loved. For there is no other emo­tion, rela­tion­ship or expe­ri­ence for that mat­ter as pure as love is. It is as writ­ten in many great scrip­tures the only way to touch God. Love every­thing around you. Love from the bot­tom of your heart and you will def­i­nitely find true love.

I can keep on going about love and its facets, its colours, its forms but I do not want to do that, I want you to remem­ber your emo­tions, your feel­ings of love and then read this story. It’s a sim­ple story, story about love, love when it is at its most uncom­pli­cated phase. Where our heart believes love has the power to change the world. I am pro­vid­ing this power now to you — to read, to live, to com­ment and to love the story. I hope it strikes a chord with you and takes you back to those won­der­ful days when falling in love was everything.

Don’t just read the story, feel it -