Time

‘I will pick you at 8’, he had said. It is past 10 now and am still waiting for him to show up.

I had to forgo my morning exercise to be ready by 8 and rushed through with whatever little I could stuff myself with in breakfast.

Now waiting in the hotel room, with nothing much to do, I am angry at myself.

 I curse myself for believing him. I should have known by now. It happens all the time with him. Funny thing is he switches off his mobile too.

I hate to wait and hate it more to make somebody wait. 

Invariably I am ready before the scheduled time.

I have learnt not to try changing others but to accept people as they are, with all their goodness and faults.

In the process I also learnt that it is equally difficult to change myself.  Still trying to accept myself as I am.

It would be so much better if we could learn to respect others time as well as our own.

So the wait continues…..he cant be changed, and I refuse to change myself.

Love part 2

Since my friend's question set me thinking, i searched for what others have said about the misterious word 'LOVE". I searched the net, looked into a few books...and compiled a few quotes. It makes an interesting read. It seems people were as confused centuries ago abt love as they are now. Perhaps That is the reason philosophers and thinkers like Sophocles, Rumi and Khalil Gilbran had to come to their rescue to make some sense of this magic word.

The Greeks defined love in four categories:

1.      Agape love is unconditional love. It is love by "choice" even if you are not pleased. A good example is "God loves us with our faults."

2.    Phi Leo love is the love of "attraction" guided by our likes or our healthy or unhealthy needs and desires.

3.    Storge is the word for family love and the physical show of "affection" the need for physical touch. Sometimes friendship that becomes physical love.

4. Eros is the physical "sexual" desire, intercourse. It is the root word of erotic, and eroticism.

Below are some of the quotes which I found most interesting:

"Your task is not to seek for love, But merely to seek and find All the barriers within yourself That you have built against it." Rumi

"The most difficult thing to explain in life is the simplest truth called love." Ramanathan Srinivasan

"The greatest pleasure is love". William Temple

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love". Sophocles

"Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are." Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist

"Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself." Joe McMahon

"And think not, you can direct the course of love; for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course". Khalil Gibran

"Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares." William Shakespeare

"Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too". Confucius

"I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward someone who needs help. There is no mistaking love. You feel it in your heart. It is the common fiber of life, the flame that heals our soul, energizes our spirit and supplies passion to our lives. It is our connection to God and to each other."Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

"There will be a moment when you're eyes meet and everything in the world is simple again." [Michael Edwards]

"You don't get to choose. You just fall".Anonymous

"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities." Janos Arany

Love

What is love, a friend asked.  'Does it exist?'

A difficult question……. Words have their limitations. Thinkers, philosophers, spiritual leaders, writers and common people, all have tried to answer it since time immemorial.  However none could contain the vastness of the words completely.

I quote below what I wrote in her blog:

Love....aha...the most mysterious of all words!!

No amount of words can describe it. But it IS there....all around us, in various forms and manifestations.

The earth has been going around the sun for millions of years....it is the love which compels it to do so. 

It is the love of the river for ocean which compells it to travel thousands of miles non stop...

I am sure the sun also loves us, otherwise why wud it nurture this magnificent earth and all its creatures not expecting anything from us.

I feel there is some Divine love which has set everything in motion...

And yes....we humans have also been endowed with this magical quality. How else do u think human race has survived for thousand of years.

ask a teenager who has just felt the first twinge of love. U might prefer to call it infatuation, but for him/her it is very real.

And then there is love of a parent for the child, specially a mother's, totally selfless and unconditional. This is the nearest one can get to true love.

None of us can survive without love. We need it all the time. Just think a bit deeply then u will realise.

These r just a few random examples of endless list.

And yes...I do realise that these r ramblings of a romantic fool.

To use a cliche....Lets RISE in love and not FALL in love. :)