Love Actually! Friday, Apr 10 2009

Sometimes I’m really curious to know what the purpose of a blog is. Is it about rambling ALL your personal thoughts? or is that more of a tool where you want to project yourself the way you want others to receive your personality? What I mean is that basically we blog about only those incidents which we particularity to share with the world; while there may be several other which are better kept safe within our own hearts.

Anyways, I’m not really sure if I would blog about my ALL of personal thoughts. Perhaps there are some things which I won’t feel like discussing here…after all the blog is a reflection of me; not me entirely

Today I want to talk about love. Yeah, its too personal; but to some extent it is generalized too. When it comes to my love, it is personal; but when we talk about love as an emotion touching every heart, there cannot be anything more generalized than that. Let us talk about that generalized aspect of love.

It is something we hear of in childhood; mostly in movies and Agony aunt columns of weekly magazines. Then just as we step into teens we start drooling over some dashing hunk starring in Television soaps and very soon the reel life guy is replaced by some real life cute and amicable guy who starts residing onto your dreams. Am I talking too much of looks? Well, I guess it applies to most of us. Until a point of time, you lack the ability to judge someone beyond his physical traits. And the way that person admires your beauty also counts. You loved it when the guy you secretly admire sweeps you off the feet with the killer looks of his eyes As you remember it often, you find yourself blushing with smile. And slowly you start feeling that he loves your  beauty and also YOU.

Well, the same saga rules even in later years. You cannot help feeling beautiful when the guy of your dreams showers you with compliments. But slowly you start differentiating between love that is full of admiration to the love full of care. When someone admires you in love, he admires you beauty, may be some bit of your personality, your thoughts and long for your company…but a number of love stories comes to an end on that point. It doesn’t culminate to that level of glory when one forgoes his own happiness for love.

And when it reaches that point, you start to wonder if you have had ever been in love before. It is a kind of love which can not be put into words. You are again swept off your feet; but this time by the love and care of the person. And you find yourself caring about him too.  Sometimes, it might just be friendship and not on be “LOVE” on the other end; but it doesn’t really matter. You love the person unconditionally. You start caring about that person. It does not matter where the relationship takes turn later; but the love that has touched you once bears its fragrance for a lifetime.

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Gone With The Wind… Wednesday, Apr 16 2008

While writing a blog post, sometimes Ifeel a little funny. It remind me of the time when we’re kids. We eagerly wanted to scribble anything and everything on the walls of our living room only to accentuate deep frowns on mom’s face. Well relax! This is not another post analyzing blogging basics.Today, I’ll discuss something far more interesting. From my teenage days, I’ve been an avid reader. And I love reading lots of books, classics, thriller

s, novels, you name it. I remember that once I borrowed “Gone With the Wind” from library and started leafing through its pages. But eventually the boredom of reading1000 pages got better of my interest and finally I gave up. I was barely sixteen that time and it has been seven years since then. A few days back, I had had the chance to get a glimpse of the book once again. And as I finished reading, I concluded that the book doesn’t narrate a story… it sketches life.

The life of the protagonist Scarlett o’Hara has been nicely portrayed in the backdrop of American Civil war. It vividly describes the impact of war in lives of common American and at the same time tries to explore delicate facets of human relations. Every incident in a person’s life leaves behind an impression in the person’s character and it becomes more evident as we get to know of the life of Scarlett. The adamant girl from Georgia gradually morphs into a responsible woman taking care of the lives of her dependents. Being unable to forget her childhood sweetheart Ashley, she is less attentive towards her husband and eventually looses him. And at the end of the story, e find Scarlett realize that she never loved Ashley at all. It was Rhett( her husband) who had been the man of her life. … Mitchell Margaret leaves the rest part of her life untold and the story ends where we find Scarlet traveling back to Tara waiting Rhett to come back someday….sometime.

In my opinion, the novelist actually hits the right chord of human sentiments where she leaves Ashley deserted, craving for the love that she once had. In practical parlance too, human are seldom aware of their own emotions. Often they love someone and feel it is for someone else. We don’t know whether Scarlett ever got the chance of meeting Rhett once again… and even if she did.. was it like ever before. People realize the worth of something when it goes out of reach..that’s basically human nature, and their lives are like feathers..just gone with the wind.

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