Beyond words..

It's easy to smile & say "I'm fine", than explain "why i'm not"?
It's easy to say "I don't care" than explain "why i really do"?
It's easy to say "I'm happy" than explain "how i really feel"?
It's easy to say "Life is good" than explain "how it's falling apart"?
It's better to keep your feeling to yourself as those who truly love you..
- can understand the words behind your silence
- can read your face and the thousand emotions that it reveals like an old story book
- can comprehend the pain in your voice
- can look in your eyes  & know everything that you are trying to conceal
- can console you with a glance, gesture, hug or an encouraging pat on your back
& you no longer feel the compelling need to say anything!!
your pain, sorrow, disappointments, anger, frustration, regret  everything vanish into thin air and you are ready to face another day head on!!


At such times, we realise how superficial words really are...
Confusing, meaningless, incapable of serving any real purpose, expressing any real emotion.....

Love : is it really?

On the personal front, last few days have been extremely tough & emotionally taxing. There were emotional upheavals, sudden outburst, cat fights, name calling, taunting, scheming, conspiracy, bitching and every other stuff which defines Ekta kapoor league saas bahu serials and all these in the name of the most overused and underrated word "Love". 

It made me ponder over 2 things: 

• What "Love" really means ? 
• What people really mean when they say that they love someone i.e son, daughter, mother, father, brother, sister, husband, wife, boyfriend/girlfriend?

We hear and speak about love in your daily life without giving a  serious thought about what it really means.

Insecurity, jealously, anger, possessiveness and every other negative emotion known to mankind seems to stem from a single most pure and powerful emotion called "Love". 

My last week's experience taught me what certainly  isn't love? It made me realise that God gives us certain experiences only to draw us closer & to strengthen our faith in him.  Praise the Lord!! - I have also realized that "Love" is much beyond mere mortals like us. Human beings can never truly & fully understand what it really means. We spend our entire life in our delusion of love deceiving ourselves and others with the only purpose of self interest.

St. Paul described the word "Love" very beautifully in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (Bible)

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.

Very high benchmark, isn't it? Can we now truly say that we love anyone in this world? Maybe our children closest - but can't say 100% sure for anyone?