Love, Actually, is Everywhere!

Where do you think one should go in order to see emotions, real feelings and true Love? To a newly born baby who is safe in his mother’s lap, to a wedding where two people are tying a know for lifetime in front of a hundred other people who do not care about anything other than the wedding dinner and cake, to a restaurant full of young couples sipping a milkshake in one glass with two straws, to a college where people walk with hand in hand in the garden and bunk the classes, to a movie theatre where people take corner seats and never really watch the movie, or to a school where little children throw pieces of paper at each other without even knowing what and why are they doing? Or to a place where people meet and depart, plan next meetings, cry for the moments that have gone and smile for the time that has yet to come, enjoy every minute of being with someone without knowing when it is going to be the next time they meet again. A place where affections turn into love, moments of happiness turn into moments of sadness, moments of waiting become those of meeting….is there such a place? Where there are big tight hugs, there are tears in the corner of the eyes, there are bright eyes waiting for someone, there are sad faces bidding goodbyes to close ones, there are happy faces saying hello to close friends, there are smiles, there are tears, there are heartbreaks, there are get-togethers, there are take offs, there are landings?

Yes, there are more feelings on train stations and airports than there are at weddings! And you know why it is so? It is because one realizes the value of something or someone only when either they go, or they come back after a long wait. There are a million times we fight with the ones we love, drift away from a loved one for no reason. But when we are not together with them, we realize that to be with them is more important than to prove our point and there is no way we can afford to lose them just in order to prove that we are right. We realize the importance of their company only when they go away, when they have left, and we are left waiting for them or only expecting that they will be back. And all these situations can be seen at their best and in all the different ways they can ever exist, places where both of these extremes meet, and that is to go to a place like an airport or a train station. People hug the ones they love, at times, regret and confess, feel guilty for what they have done or not done, realize that they love someone more than anything ever, or that we were expecting too much from someone that does not deserve, or see someone for the last time, for the first time, or hold a placard and wait for someone unknown. In fact, life itself is like an airport. We are all holding placards in the name of someone unknown, and living with the hope of seeing the one that is made for us.

So in fact, love, actually, is everywhere, even where we cannot see it. It is just like the air, that exists everywhere, but we cannot see it with our eyes, it just does what it has to, and stays there forever, it is just a matter of realization. We cannot survive without air, but we realize it only when we are short of breath and are dying. And the good thing is that when we get something after such a long wait, it seems to be the most important thing to us and we look for ways to never let it go, ever again. For now when we know it is something that we cannot live without, it becomes even more essential a part of or life. We are normally okay with whatever is happening, but once we get what we were always unknowingly craving for, we cannot live without it. There are so many people who get the love and lose it. It is not just because they have not realized its importance. Sometimes life shows us its ultimate power of taking and giving things to and from us. For even life needs to make us realize its importance at times, when we begin to forget what is our raison d’être and start giving more importance to ourselves.

And then there are times when things happen for god knows what reasons, and the phrase “Everything happens for good” begins to look like the biggest lie to us. But I believe whatever happens has a reason behind itself, and though, being humans, we cannot realize it when our vision is blurred with the tears of regret, guilt, shame, sadness or even love, it still is true. For truth doesn’t change with our ability to see it, it is truth and it is complete within itself, it doesn’t need a proof, it doesn’t hide itself like us humans, when there is no one to believe in it, it is open and in front of us all the time, we just need to understand that it won’t change just because we do not like it. I know that the last thing I said is sort of “Easy to say, difficult to do”, but as I said, this is also a universal truth and we have to accept it no matter what our heart says, for our brain knows what is the truth. The same goes for love. It is there, it always exists, it never fails to do what it has to, and it doesn’t care whether we realize it or not. It is there. Love, if nowhere else, is actually within us. No matter if we do not realize it, or we keep saying we have lost it, or we have never seen it. It is there like the air that we can never see. It is there like God. We have never seen him but we always pray to him, we always believe in him, in what he does, or can do. God, actually, exists within us. And no matter how much we criticize him, or complain of him for not being there with us, he is there, always. We only realize his importance when something extraordinary happens, some miracle or some magic happens. The same way, love, is always there, with us, within us, for us, among us, but we never realize it until either it goes away, or comes back, until there is a miracle which makes us say, “Wow! So here I am, looking at what I was waiting for since forever! This is it!” got what I mean to say?

I say love exists everywhere, we don’t need to touch it, feel it or see it to believe in it, we just need to understand that Love is everywhere and just like god, it doesn’t need to prove its existence to us, and when it does, it leaves no mark. We just need to be satisfied that we are alive. And that is only because we L.I.V.E., we love the life, no matter how much it hurts us, how much it kills us, we are still alive, and there is love within our souls. It doesn’t matter which form it is in, it doesn’t matter how much it is, it is there, and that is all what matters. So, Love, actually, is everywhere. And it is not dependent on us to believe in it. So keep believing, and one day, without a notice, without a horn, it will crash you, and you will open your eyes in a whole new world, of miracles, of the extraordinary, of the unbelievable and of L.O.V.E. J Just keep Living, keep believing, keep Loving.