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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Love: Possession v/s Emotion

We often refer to an emotion as 'Love'. I love my parents, I love my job, I love my Dog, I love my wife/husband. These are things that we possess. But very often, we also love things that we don't possess. Like a car we always wanted, a place that we always wanted to visit, an actor or a character etc. Some of these things, we can never possess. But we still love them! We love so many things knowing that we cant possess them.

We fall in love with a person too in our life. We fall in love with them and then start building dreams around them. We dream of wedding them, we dream of building a house, a family, a future with them. This is a love that we want to possess.

Why?

Why do we have to love a person and always have to want to possess them? Have we ever thought of why we loved them in the first place? The answer to that 8 out of 10 times is the way that person looks. The way they look, the way they dress, their eyes, their smile, their hair, their glare all add up to the way they look. Then we start loving their character, their behavior, their attitude. Then we want to be around them, to talk to them, to laugh with them, to cry with them, we want them to share their feelings with us, we want them to be with us always. But have we ever thought of what we really want from them? NO! I am not referring to sex you pervert! I am referring to happiness. Yes, happiness!

And im talking about their happiness, not ours. We want to keep them by our side so that we can keep them happy. We want to gift them flowers, chocolates, soft toys etc to make them happy. But why are we heart-broken when that person wants to be with someone else? Her wanting to be with someone else means her being happy with him. Isnt that what we want? For her to be happy? Then why do we still try and win her heart? instead, why dont we pray to god to keep her happy with him? Aren't we selfish to say that she has to be ours? she will be happy with me and not with him?

People think that love is all about possession. to possess the person they love. For me, love is all about emotion. Love is an emotion that binds 2 people together. We don't have to necessarily be with each other to share love. We just need to pray that the other person is happy.

Think about it!

Cheers \m/
Freeek