Love again ...

These are not my words. All this time, while I have tried to write about Love in my blog, I never could sound so beautiful. This article expresses things so beautifully that I just had to put it down here. I don't know who wrote this but it is certainly the jist of all I had ever wanted to say.

When you think of your past love; you may view it as a failure; but when you find a new love, you view the past as a teacher. In the game of love, it doesn't really matter who won or who lost. What's important is that you know when to hold on and when to let go. You know that you love someone when you want him or her to be happy, even if their happiness means that you're not a part of it. Everything happens for a reason and for its best. If the person you love doesn't love you back, don't be afraid to love someone else again, for you'll never know unless you give it a try.

You'll never truly love a person, unless you risk for their love; love strives in hurting. If you don't get hurt, then you won't learn how to love. Love doesn't hurt all the time; though the hurting is there to test you, to help you grow. Don't find love, let love find you; that's why it's called falling in love, because you don't need to force yourself to love, you just fall. You cannot finish a book without closing the chapters. If you want to move on, then you have to leave the past as you turn the pages.

Love is not destroyed by a single failure or won by a single caress. But why is it that the greatest irony of love is letting go when you want to hold on, and holding on when you need to let go? You can never find the right person if you can never let it go of the wrong, but at the same time the moment you feel like letting go, you remember why you held on for so long. Sometimes you have to forget what you want and remember what you deserve.
To love is to risk rejection, to live is to risk dying and to hope is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing at all. To reach for another is to risk involvement, to expose your feelings is to expose your true self. To love is to risk not being loved in return.

How to define love: Fall but do not stumble. Be constant but not too persistent. Share and never be unfair. Understand and try not to demand. Hurt but never keep the pain.
Love is supposed to be the most wonderful feeling. It should inspire you and give you joy and strength. But sometimes the things that give you joy can also hurt you in the end. Loving people means giving them the freedom; whom they choose to be and where they choose to go. Loving someone means giving them the freedom to find their way, whether it leads towards you or away from you.

Love can be a painful risk. To love means that risk must be taken, no matter how scary or painful, for only then will you experience the fullness of humanity of what we call love. If you're not ready to cry, if you're not ready to take the risk and if you're not ready to feel the pain, then you're not ready to fall in love.

May there be lots of love in the world ....

Anand

This is my all time favourite movie. I have watched it many times and can still watch it. The story of a guy called Anand who lives life to the fullest knowing truly well that he is going to die in 6 months. He is diagnosed with a disease called "lymphocercoma of the intestine". I dont know if this disease really exists or not, but it did become quite a popular term in the Indian film industry. Everything about the movie is just so sensible and beautiful. Everybody falls in love with Anand. He is is this always smiling, full of positive energy ,wonderful person one cannot help but like. What makes the movie more wonderful is the other characters whose lives are touched by Anand. They are all from different religion and backgrounds but they all pray to their respective Gods for just one thing -- that Anand survives. I loved the timimg of the last scene where Dr.Bhaskar shouts at a dead Anand saying "6 mahine se bol bol ke mera sar kha gaye ho!" and the tape plays ... "Babu Moshai..Zindgai aur maut upar wale ke hatho main hai jahanpana ....". The best part is how there is a delay created with silence while they tape this dialogue with Anand getting ready. This delay is then used amazingly well in the last scene.
I absolutely and completely loved the dialogues of the movie. Here are a lists of 5 of them which I never forget :
1) Zindagi lambi nahi badi honi chahiye.
2) Jab tak zinda hoon tab tak mara nahi, jab mar gaya to sala main he nahi.
3) Shayad ye gum he hai jo usse sambhale hue hai.
4) Zindagi main koi pasand aaya, usse baat ki, uss ke sath has liya ...
and finally the closing line of the movie,
5) Anand mara nahi, Anand marte nahi.

Oh here are a few more :
1) Ek mara nahi aur doosra marne ke liye paida ho gaya.
2) Mujhe aashirwad dijiye ki main bohot boloon, kabhi chup na hoon. Acha boloon. galti se bhi kisi ke liye bura na nikle mere mooh se.
3) Aise aadmi ko chhod ke to Bhagwaan bhi nahi reh sakte.

Well, It is considered a classic for all the right reasons!

Why do I write

I write because I am lucky enough to convert my incoherent ramblings into coherent words.
Because sometimes sentences just pop in my head and keep echoing unless i put them down.
Because it helps me to think clearly.
Because it helps me to move on.
Because I always have so much to talk about and often there is no one to listen.
Because somethings are better written than said.
Because its good to keep a record of your thoughts since you can always go back to them and reflect if you have grown as a person or not (too philosophical?)
Because it helps me to keep elaborate memories.
Because maybe if i keep writing regularly, I'll actually start writing the way I want to. Filhaal, I am not even close.
And finally I write because I will burst with trapped thoughts if i don't :)