Love

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness.
Confused ??
SO m I and I am sure so was Woody Allen when he said that. But confusing you was not my aim , you are already confused.
Let me tell ya this , Love is something in the air and this weather is so conducive for all the love related activities. I see a lot of love birds flying around all the places. Sometimes they chose to sit at a corner
Seemingly invisible to do somethings which are prohibited in public places.
And at this time when almost everybody is falling in love I pray to god “ God!! If it’s not against any universal rule and by a girl falling in love with me is not going to invite Armageddon then can I Please with your kind permission meet that girl “. ( Please god please ).

The thing here is that the love rain is far from reality I just wonder whether I would even see the love clouds and sing Ghanan Ghanan Ghir Ghir aye badra or not.

Not that I have never fallen in love before. But all my love / affairs turned out to be stupidity and for a matter of fact almost all such relations that I have seen in my life.

So this speech is dedicated to Stupidity oops I meant to say Love.

Come on sing with me – “some love song “.

A very intelligent man said “There are two things which are found everywhere Hydrogen and Stupidity”. It made me question myself what can I tell you about stupidity that is derived from my experiences or someone else’s as per the objective of this speech. I kept thinking for couple of days then only one thing which I could think of was the “Love” which I found closest to stupidity.
So here I present some of the instances where someone very close acted stupid or better to say fell in love.

Year 1996 – Mr. X fell in love with cricket – got slapped by his mother thrice in a week and then dropped the idea of being a start spinner.

Cricket ??? Now ask me what m I talking about ? you thought I would be talking about only affairs between a boy and a girl. 

Year 1997 – Mr. X fell in love with a girl. Oh not that there was a possibility of falling in love with a boy then and just to make it clearer there wasn’t a chance even if the previous case was possible.

So the love that I was talking about – she was beautiful ( now she is a married with a kid, oho not married with a kid she is married and she has a kid ).


Mr. X belonged to a boys school background and I am sure I do not need to explain what it means . Girls were an alien concept to him and for his buddies.
He used to carry Ganga Jal in a tiny bottle to purify himself just in case he touched a girl by mistake. And one day it happened – he was passing on a book to the girl He was in love with once and his finger touched one of her fingers.
I can not tell ya what a dilemma it was for him his soul was crying to be pure again using that ganga jal but his heart skipped a beat everytime he got the feeling of doing that.
Finally his heart won in the contest and he decided to not wash his hand for 3 days.


Love – oh Love what all can you make people do.


Well that was past and somehow He ended up in an engineering college and managed to get couple of best friends who are girls.
There were girl who were friends and there was a girl friend. He got so confused . Kept wondering even though whole thing is different why do we call all of them Girl Friends. He thought it was a crazy nomenclature and decided to make a new one.
So as the theory says
“ A girl who is in love with you and vice versa is your girl friend and a girl who is your friend is your girl_friend. “

Again in Year 2004 Mr. X fell in love. Oh my God !! How many times did you have to do that to him .. He kept asking God the same question for a long long time..

So this love which lasted longest in his life taught him a lot of things.
1. A girl friend is Just like a client who has no idea of what he wants.
2. You can never understand them. Believe me closest I have got to understanding them is that they all tend to like pink color.
Here I remember a quote from famous psychoanalyst Freud – He once said
The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is, "What... does a woman want?"


So the days kept passing at their own pace and as they were progressing on the path to live happily ever after there came the day they broke up and Mr. X was alone again. Love was a past there was a deep depression. He kept sleeping and eating and sleeping and eating and sleeping and eating and sleeping and eating and then he started watching English television serials.


Mr. X fell in love again in year 2006 with those English serials and it happened which was expected. His Grades went on a slippery slope and they fell down like the stock market hit by deep depression.

Time for a song – right ? I remember this song that Mr. X kept singing all the time from the Band “Puddle of Mud” – ‘ So that was the story as you see ..learned my lesson and so did she, now its over and I am glad , I feel like fool for all what I said “.

Since then he has fallen in love many times sometimes with some movie star, some times with a book and sometimes with the girl next door.

All the times he fell for it something or the other went wrong.

So it is the time to tell ya who is Mr. X. Ladies and Gentlemen he is yours truly.
Just for the observation:


Everytime after the whole sequence of falling in love and then separating I ask this question to myself – “Was all the pain worth it ? “
And I find only one answer – “ yes it was “.

There is nothing more beautiful that can happen to you than love.

PS
- But here is a warning that Albert Einstein issued – “ You can fall in love as many times as you want but gravitation is not to be held responsible for people falling in love”.

- In all my encounters with love birds I found following features common in their relation –
1. Noone remains same after sometime. We all get to know that we have changed. Don’t we ?
2. They are all birds – they fly away after sometime.
3. Interestingly All of them fall in love at first sight.
4. Sooner or later they all realize they were not mature enough when they fell in love.
And many more.