Love is a feeling for life and not just for one day.

14th Feb, a day celebrated across the world in the name of love. Its good to celebrate it, but does love need only one day to be celebrated?. Love is a feeling that has to be celebrated and shared every single day with your loved ones. It can be in any form, by listening to them, helping, being with them, doing something or caring for them. Valentine's day doesn't mean you need to celebrate it with a room filled with red roses, gifts and a candlelight dinner.

Today V-Day is nothing but just a business for so many, its celebrated by corporates to earn more profit, hotels to make more business, shops to earn extra sales. For the lovey dovey couple, Why do you need to hype this day so much? When you know that your loved one loves you, then why is there a drama when he doesn't get you a gift on this day?. Love them not for the gifts they bring instead love them for being with you at every step of yours. When we truly love someone, no matter what they do or how they react, we still tend to love them the same way we did. It can be celebrated by helping each other in the household chores, appreciating each other, supporting one another. Millions and millions of ways are there to express your love. Find it not in the commercialized gifts but in a true way that can bring a smile on the other person.

Singles who feel bad on this day, take a hold and celebrate it in a different manner. Visit an old age home, those are the ones who also need love. Orphans, sick people, disabled and handicapped, mentality retarded people, depressed people, they also need love. There are people around us who need a hug to feel someone cares for them. All we can do is to make someone smile on this day and for life. Pray for someone, forgive a person who might have hurt you, bless your enemy, be the reason for someone's happiness and be the smile on someone's face. Today the world really needs love and not just one day celebrated in its name.

Love is the most simplest thing to understand, yet we feel its complicated. It can be expressed with care and concern, but we fail to express it. We spend hours in making money to secure our future, but we find it difficult to spend few minutes to speak and build a relationship, few seconds to spend with people. Life is too short, love before you regret, listen before you speak, understand before you judge, forgive before you hurt and live it before you die Its difficult at times, but today I have promised to follow and do it. Will you too join in to make this life a meaningful one?.

A moment of Joy with a little one taught me lots about life...

At the corner of this big room, there was a little one, who was busy playing with papers and dint notice me stepping towards him. I slowly whispered 'Hi', there was no response back, as he was still stuck making something out of a paper. Then I put my hand over his shoulder and said 'Hi'. He was surprised to see me. He din't respond back hi, instead gave me the paper and asked 'Could you please make a boat for me?'. I smiled back and said 'Ok, I'll do it for you'. In few seconds the paper boat was all set ready to sail. He took the boat and smiling said 'Thank you'. That was the first smile I saw on his face that day.

It was the first step towards friendship. I offered to help him in creating a paper plane, he was overjoyed and asked me 'You can make a plane too'?. I smiled and said yes. Soon we made a paper plane. And this way we started to make things, have lunch together, play around, hug each other, jump around. I relived my childhood days. The joy, the happiness, the smile he had is something I can never forget. Just lost in my thoughts that, how innocent kids are, they don't need your money or things to make them happy, what they just need is your love and care.

The day was coming to an end and I had to leave. When darkness started to fall outside, he stopped laughing and was not that happy as he was till evening. He knew that, now is the time I'm going to go. I knelt down, hugged him, smilingly said bye. When I got back on my feet to leave, he just held my hand and whispered something, as it was not clear to me. I knelt down again and asked him 'What happened?'. Holding back his tears, looking deep in my eyes, he asked me 'Can you please stay back, I don't have anyone with me?'. I still wish I could reply him yes or I could adopt him forever.

Right guess, he is one of those kids who's parents abandoned him for no mistake of his. I couldn't stop tears falling from my eyes, its difficult to say NO, even more difficult when it's NO to a kid. Hugging him back, I assured him I will comeback as I'm not allowed to stay there. Till I left the room he stood there hoping that, I will stay back. I pray he finds a home where he will have parents and will be loved and cared.

Everyday in newspaper we read that, a baby was found in the garbage bin or on the roadside or near holy places, but has one ever thought and realized how much trauma do these kids go through? They feel its their mistake that they don't have a family, they feel no one loves or cares for them. The ones who gave birth to them, how can you ever think of leaving a part of yours on the roadside or dump it in garbage bin? Don't you even feel the pain? People tell me that, I'm overreacting to such issues, they say the lady might have done that, because she can't face the society. Then tell me one thing, if you being an elder can't face the society, how do you think the little one will face, when they see others having a family, when they see their same age kids enjoying life and being happy. No matter how difficult life is, just hold your little one with you, even if you have to leave people who never stood by you, because there will be lots of hands which will proudly hold and help you grow in your path of life.

Lessons of life can be learned either by ourselves or others teach us and this process goes on till we are alive no matter how old we grow. The little one taught me a lesson for life - To love and care someone without expecting anything in return not even love, is the best feeling. Its not difficult, you just need courage and a soft heart that beats for them.

Share joy and happiness, spread smile on people's face, I know that we all are fighting our battle of life, and it can be lighten only with a touch of love, a kiss of happiness, a tender hand to help, a hug filled with care.  

A love that turned into bitter.....

'I love you, why can't you understand that', and 'No' came the reply in a firm tone. I don't want to hear that no from you, I don't want to understand, that its no forever. I don't want to think about a future without you. That was never my dream. Why did you shatter it? Was there any mistake done? Was the time less? Was there any misunderstanding? If it was a No then why did you ever propose me? Why did you ever come in my life?. If cupid struck an arrow, then who is the one who removed it.. Cause the heart is just bleeding now.

Is it true that there is a better tomorrow with a broken heart? No idea isn't it. Even I don't have an answer to it. 'Love' is a very beautiful feeling, it feels nice to know, that someone somewhere loves you or when you are head over heels in love with someone. It makes you feel as if you are in the seventh cloud. But then all of sudden its over, both are apart and all bitter feelings are there. Some one moves on and gets married; and some is left behind with memories, which are actually sweet but just don't want to think about it, as it brings tears and bitterness. You feel - 'why me only God who has to suffer this?'. But in actual you not the only person who suffers this.

Each and every day without fail you remember the person, something in life reminds you of the one you loved, the song, the path, the things. You want to throw the things away but you can't; cause you know its the only thing left with you now. Everything starts to haunt you. People come up saying that you will find a better person, but you dont want a better person, you just want that one person back. In this busy life just holding back the tears you try to move on, but there when your all alone you realise your not out of it. You have a whole life in front of you to cry or live to the fullest which one do you choose now?

To all people who feel its the end of the road, try moving on and you will succeed in every phase of life. Destiny has already been written before you were born, which can't be changed, no matter how hard you try. Certain people are meant to part, cause that's best for both of them. For people who feel sucide is the best way to get out of this, let me tell you straight, live for the people who gave birth to you and don't die for the one who left you alone to suffer. You will find the right person with imperfections but just learn to accept, cause none here are perfect. Time heals everything, if you want it to be healed.

Sufferings are the best part of life cause they make us stronger than the wind to face anything in life.