What is love?

Love comes in many forms... It is the feeling you have for your soul mate. It is also the feeling you have for your children. You also have this feeling for your friends. Each time you feel the feeling you feel so full that you think it is not possible to feel a greater feeling. It fills the insides of your heart and mind so completely that it overtakes you- and dares you to defy it! And, soon enough, slowly, very s...l...o...w...l...y... it begins anew with a new focus. And you find the same feeling growing again!

When we are children, our life revolves around the parents, friends and a few teachers who define our world and create our perspective and world view. We are brimming with love and adulation, and a lot of curiosity. It never really occurs to a child that the feeling he feels is strange, or even meaningful. It defines the child's life and his happiness. A little more time passes and we begin to identify new sources for the beginning of this circle we call love. We draw one circle to include this friend and another one for that one. May be, if we are lucky we will draw another circle for that special teacher or that special Uncle/ aunt who connect with us and our thinking in a way that cuts across distance and time. We draw more and more circles. All are circles of inclusion and involvement.

We connect.

Then, we grow older still. We enter the teen years and finally adulthood with some trepidation, and some expectation. Some will just have to cultivate love where they sit and walk and run. There will be others who will find love in the wilderness of life and put roots to their togetherness, grow roots and grow strong together.
Completion.
We are all somewhat incomplete without the feeling and feel somewhat contented with life when we have the feeling we all call love.

Have you ever tried to explain the feeling?

Has anyone ever really been able to define it?
Saying you love someone- parent, child, friend or lover- conveys a feeling that no one has been able to capture in words and each feels somewhat differently.

Love is a warm sunny feeling an a cool winter morning. It is the warmth and the cool together. It is the comfort and the ability to take on the whole world. It is not only the ability to take on the whole world but also the ability to beat the hell out of all the nay-sayers!

Love is WANTING to do things for the one you love.
Love is WANTING to see your loved one smile.
LOVE is what makes everything else worthwhile.

If you are lucky enough to find it- fight hard, tooth and nail to keep it!
Else, if you have not found it, GET UP, Get going, AND FIND IT.
Be open.
However, even if you choose to be closed, LOVE WILL FIND ITS WAY!
Love is what really makes the world and life possible.
Not just at the very primal level but also in the continuation of life and living a meaningful life!