Hmmm....LOVE

Is it necessary that the person you love must love you back? Is it necessary that the One that you cannot live without feels the same for you? Is it necessary that love must be  reciprocated in the same manner and magnitude? A practical mind may answer these questions in positive but a mind and heart in love will float in it's own emotions and answers to these questions in negative.

With each negative answer emerges a unison question: How much to Love?

You may be in Love with anybody on this Earth...it does not matter,  what matters is the fact that you are in Love. Pragmatic may call this the biggest mistake of one's life no doubt. But, for a heart that has tasted the nectar of love this is the biggest and the most significant experience.

There are no set rules that might determine the quantum of love in your heart. Love like free flowing river.... A river only keep on flowing, pouring its water for benefit of all. When a river flows, when it quenches the thirst of millions, does it question how much to pour? Why to  pour the water though nobody  is replenishing it? A river is a perfect example of  self-less  love...it symbolizes the purity and magnanimity of  love. It epitomizes love. Even when it swells, even when it floods  it's banks it leaves its banks FERTILE. That is the beauty of true love. There is no quantum, no definition, no parameters, no  extent of love.

There is nothing called True or False love. How can one judge a feeling so pure? Can a mother judge her love for her child  as true or false? There is truly nothing called True or  False love, and if there is then it is merely a matter of  perspective. WE SEE WHAT WE WANT TO SEE. If you want to see love in someone's eyes then you will see and call it True Love and if you don't want to do so then out of convenience you may call it False.  

This leaves us to the final question: What if the One whom you love the most does not reciprocate to  your love? The only answer to this question can be found in the love  that we witness everyday yet we tend to ignore it. Everyday there is some being that feeds us, tends to our needs, furnishes us, replenishes us...that being makes our existence possible. Such a  selfless love is showered on each one of us by Mother Earth.... Love like Nature...when it feeds you it does not expect anything, when it tends you it does not expect, even when it protects you still does it expect anything in return?

Love from within your heart....keep on loving no matter what. Its true that the path would not be simple neither will it be easy. But, where Love promised you all these luxuries?

Just bear in mind while loving, that, When you loved someone you dint contractually oblige the other to love you back. So, go on loving, without any reason, logic or rationale attached to your feelings. Love like the River, like Nature.... Go  on loving...don't give up on Love because Love never gave up on you!

MAGIC WAND

Who  does not know the story of Cinderella. Who is not amused by the purity of the story? Who does not wonder, had there been a Fairy Godmother our problems would have solved...every issue  that bothered us...every  intricacy that has spun its web around our lives making it complex would have magically disappeared.

Well I too believe in fairy tales...I do believe that there is a fairy Godmother, I do believe that she has a magic wand. I do believe that the wand takes away all problems and makes  this world a better place to live in.

With this thought, this firm  belief I started a quest, a journey that took my strength it took away my youth. From a supple youth with soft black curls, slowly I turned into a hag with brittle skin and grey locks. I fanatically started looking for this magic wand. The possession of this Key to all happiness became my sole purpose. Every unsuccessful attempt made me...compelled me look more...search more and gander more. Next  step I may get it, was my call. I was in a frenzy and later the frenzy became my obsession. "Just another step...a bit more", was the voice deep within me.

My quest was not for just  my selfish need to be happy, it had a higher purpose too. I wanted the wand to take away the eye-sores of the world polity and economy and socio-religious panorama. I aimed to take away poverty, intolerance, religious and ethnic differences; I wanted to spread love, happiness and peace all over.

So i convinced myself of this higher cause and a collateral selfish purpose and continued with the quest. Through the journey  in search of the Magic Wand  I crossed lands and seas  and meet different people with different ways. Finally i reached the place where I had come to know that the Magic Wand was hidden.

I walked closer and closer to the place to my Magic wand. As I was walking close I could feel my heart go numb...I was losing my senses! I told myself, "not now! You are so close to it!" I could see my Magic Wand it was in front of me but now I could not get up, I could not touch it. There it was the prize of my endearvours and I saw it vanishing away into thin air....

When I woke up, I found  myself in a humble cottage, I still could not believe that my quest...my obsession...my Wand was gone for ever.  With the sense of the loss that I had just suffered I started sobbing and started cursing my fate. All I wanted was a magic wand that would take away all the problems and spread  Bliss in my life and People at large could also be happy!!

As I was crying over my ill-fate, a fragile lady came over, she has a peaceful aura around her, she had some kind of attraction  that compelled people to look at her,  a smile that was so content. I looked at her and asked her where  was I and Why was she so happy so much so that she looked DIVINE.

To my questions she answered, that, I was at her cottage and she is always happy because she possesses the MAGIC WAND. The Magic Wand!! my Magic Wand...yes the one that I wanted so dearly, the one that made me come here! I asked her in the most humble manner if she could give me her Magic wand. To my question she smiled, went to the wooden peck on the wall where my clothes were  hung  and from the folds of my own clothes she pulled out a Magic Wand,  "how can I give you my Magic Wand when throughout your quest you always had your Magic Wand with your own self?"

We  all carry our Magic Wands with ourselves, the solutions to our problems and answer to all our issues. We do not realize the potential of our  Magic Wands, we are so busy in the search of a perfect life that we miss to see the perfectness of this imperfect life that we lead. Our Magic Wand are the people around us those who make our lives worth living. Our Magic Wand is the goal of our life that must aim at making this world  a better place to live in. Our Magic Wand is we, our mind, our heart and our soul...our magic wand is deep within us all we have to do is undrape our minds bring the purest thought and then our problems will shed away.

The Magic Wand is We...We are the solution of our own problems.