For the one you love.

What can you do for the one you love? For the one person in the whole world you truly love, from the depth of your heart. Whether or not that person is in your life at the moment is immaterial, because each one of us has the certain “one” in our minds all the time. The one shadow we had been smitten with since forever. The love we have all imagined and nurtured in our minds, in our dreams and hopes, even since the time we have been dreaming. The hope to someday meet that one person never deserts us, and is I guess one of those sweet painful joys of living. Like it or not, believe it or not, but there’s always a difference between what you would have liked in your dreams, and what you actually manage in reality. This difference is called a mix of practicality, selfishness, lack of understanding, expectation and lack of realization. The magnitude of this difference is what varies from one relationship to another and defines its characteristic flavor and its depth.

I don’t know why my mind’s delved into such a topic right in the morning but I mostly write on instinct and I’m doing so now. There’s a blog, one of those anonymous secret types that one uses to lessen the weight on the heart, that I had run into accidentally some days back, and I read it every morning without leaving a trace for the author. What he writes breaks my heart, and on some mornings like today’s it even gets awkward to have tears in your eyes in office. But that is the power of love, true love, and the pain in words is too intense to remain bounded within the pixels of the computer screen. As much as I pray that whatever happens to them eventually is for their good and peace of mind, the very knowledge of its reality shakes the soul.

What can you do for the love of your life? I’m not looking for promises of sun and moon as the answer, I’m looking for the reality whose tangibility will some day tell you the meaning of the most frequently used yet the least understood word in this world: love. It’s easy to say I love you with your mouths, it’s difficult to say it with your eyes and every atom of your body, and it’s the most difficult to say it with your actions of a lifetime. Yes, it’s not easy. A lot of blood sweat tears and patience could be inadequate unless topped with perseverance understanding and an abandonment of ego. Circumstantial difficulties, big and small, trivial and gigantic will always be there. As much as you’d like to live in your own small special world with nobody else at all, it doesn’t happen. As much as you’d like to unfailingly understand and be understood, humans do fail at times. And yet if you can take it in your stride and make only the one promise of giving all that you could possibly for the sake of that love, consider yourself blessed. I once wondered whether there was any room for logic in love. I haven’t the complete answer, but I can atleast say that one needs the logic to think if you can give this promise and to execute it, completely illogically, for love has its very own different logic.

What can you give for the one you love? Can you live for your love? Can you truly give your life? And I just don’t mean to be able to eat poison for the sake of the love. Can you give away whatever you think IS your life and makes your life with a smile for her/his sake? Even if your life really is her/him! Can you give him/her up if they wish or desire and for their happiness?

I can.