جے سوہنا میرے دکھ وچ راضی ، تے میں سکھ نوں چولہے پاواں

Love and Correlation

"Where do you think love is? Think about the person you love the most and you are A and the other person is B. Which graph signifies love? It is (I believe) is the graph on the right top because if you are looking for a perfect relationship, there is no such thing and in fact it is the wrong thing to look for. You are looking for yourself in the other person … it is noisy, there is tension but hopefully the relationship is positively inclined."

Gautum Kaul, Introduction to Finance (University of Michigan)  

The coward does it with a kiss

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves

By each let this be heard

Some do it with a bitter look

Some with a flattering word

The coward does it with a kiss

The brave man with a sword” 

― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad Of Reading Gaol

This is Love - Yasmin Mogahed

"...human love they seek was not the destination. Some form of that human love, can be a gift. It can be a means. But the moment you make it the End, you will fall ... You will give your life to reaching a ‘destination’ of worldly perfection that does not exist."

"The lesson you’re taught is that the story ends at the wedding, and then that’s when Jennah (paradise) begins. That’s when you’ll be saved and completed and everything that was once broken will be fixed. The only problem is, that’s not where the story ends. That’s where it begins. That’s where the building starts: the building of a life, the building of your character, the building of sabr, patience, perseverance, and sacrifice. The building of selflessness. The building of love."

"If it is love that you seek, seek it through God. Every other stream, not based in His love, poisons the one who drinks from it...when you do love, you will give to the creation—not for what you can get in return from them. You will love and you will give, but you will be sufficed from Him."

This is Love by Yasmin Mogahed

Love or farewell or recognition

Could she still draw back...? Her  distress awoke a nausea in her body and she kept moving her lips in silent fervent prayer.
A bell clanged upon her heart. She felt him seize her hand:
-Come!
All the seas of the world tumbled about her heart. He was drawing her into them: he would drown her. She gripped with both hands at the iron railing.
-Come!
No! No! No! It was impossible. Her hands, clutched the iron in frenzy. Amid the seas she sent a cry of anguish!
-Eveline! Evvy!
He rushed beyond the barrier and called to her to follow. He was shouted at to go on but he still called to her. She set her white face to him, passive, like a helpless animal. Her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition.

Eveline, Dubliners, James Joyce 

Dr. O'Malley: Is it possible ...do you think...to love two people...at the same time?

Dr. Burke: I don't know...I am still hoping it's possible to just love one person.

(Grey's Anatomy S03E23)

Justification?

Is there any justification not to love those who are so dear to us just because they will leave us eventually and it would hurt so bad?

Facade of Love

Facade of an eternal love
The veil finally lifted
An over dragged play
A very predictable climax
Still a round of applause
For the players who persisted
Had something up your sleeve
You knew the game well
Waited for the moment
Ultimately…cheated
Lines, colours and imagination
The composition is revolting
I’ll keep wondering why
The picture was painted

27th February, 2006. Published in US Magazine, The News