What is Love ???

What is it to be in Love exactly?

Is it really the violins playing, wind chimes chiming and butterflies fluttering in the stomach?

Is it when you are in love the wind blows the girls’ dupatta and it falls on the guys’  face who is standing miles apart and a song starts to play in the background?

Is it when two people are walking such that three guys can easily do bhangra between the spaces separating them and suddenly the girls’ sari gets stuck on the guys’ bracelet? They try to remove it and in doing so they look in each others’ eyes and that’s it the world stops. (And let’s not forget the song starts to play in the background).

Or is it when girl is walking on a friggin rough floor that has the greatest coefficient of friction and suddenly she slips on so much as a single sesame seed. And out of nowhere the guy comes and holds her just in time trying to maintain his own balance and striking the famous RK banner pose. They look in each others’ eyes and that’s that. Come on now the bloody song really feels bad so it plays again for the umpteenth time in background.

                                                                                    

Is this love?  

I don’t think so; it’s Karan Singh Grover a.k.a Dr. Armaan starrer Dill Mill Gayye (with extra L’s and Y’s) version of love. Love in reality is much much more than that. It’s a feeling that can’t be described in words. It’s a thought that has eluded poets and writers for centuries. And these were their attempts to put a finger on it. So I decided to put it to thought too. Love is the most talked about and written about topic in the world. People spend their entire life trying to find that someone special. Love can be, most of the time mistaken for infatuation. The question which once had started as ‘What is love’ boils down to ‘Is this love’. There is a very thin line between infatuation and love.

So how is one supposed to tell the difference?

The best test is time. Infatuation never stands the test of time but with love it’s a completely different story. No matter how filmi it sounds but you’ll just know it when the time comes. Everybody wants to fall in love, be loved and experience love. It’s a phase in which a small thought of hers will keep you smiling for hours. Having said all those things I’m damn sure the attention of most of girls would still have lingered on the name Karan Singh Grover. Hasn’t it? Damn it! I knew I shouldn’t have mentioned him. Crap! I did it again. Moving on, her face is imprinted so well on your memory that you can see her every time you close your eyes. Sometimes you pray to god to give you that artistic gift just so you can sketch her, to give you that poetic sense just so you could write a poem for her. Being in love is like being in a mystical place where every day is like the first day of spring. Every thought is worth singing for. The atmosphere always seems cozy and the heart is always soaring.

As hard falling in love might seem, staying in love is way harder. It’s a union of two souls and mid-way the process mind starts to interfere. You suddenly check for pros and cons. And that’s when the question arises; ‘is she the one.’ Every man that has walked on the face of this earth, at one time or another right from the birth of time itself has faced this inevitable dilemma ‘Is she the one’. This question defines everything and it might even turn your world upside down. But if it’s really meant to be, it’ll turn out to be the right way. And that’s when it starts to happen, wavelengths starts to match. The bond becomes stronger. But it doesn’t mean you complete each others’ sentences, it means that you don’t need sentences. And that is just the beginning and you’ll spend the rest of your life enjoying such things that we call love in the broader sense.

This was my version and I’m sure everyone has their own. Which might, I‘d like to add, include some dupattas flying……

But one thing’s for sure it always starts with one simple question, ‘What is Love.’

PS: all references to Dill Mill Gayye (with extra L’s and Y’s) are not because I watched it. It’s because I have a sister and she’s a fan, who goes Yipes!! And turns pink every time she hears the name Karan Singh Grover a.k.a Dr. Armaan. I swear I don’t get why girls blush by mere mention of his name…

Crap!! I did it again, didn’t I?