A rose

A beautiful rose opened its eyes to the world
with the first hint of dawn
She drank the sweet dew of the night before
from her delicate petals
And smiled at the honeybees,
who vied for her nectar
Swaying gently in the soft breeze
spreading her soft fragrance,
the rose felt proud of its youth
She flirted with the butterflies in the day
And shamed the moths with her beautiful colors
in the dusk
She laughed at the eager lovers
who wanted the prized rose
for the lovely maidens who waited for them
“ah! I’m alive and what a beautiful life it is”
She thought
Then one day she saw
her blood red petals had turned yellow
The bees were gone and so were the butterflies
There were no more eager glances
and no one noticed
As one by one her petals fell
and then there was nothing…………..

Uncertainity...

If we could only learn to live with a little uncertainity and stopped fretting over what's going to happen next, we could make our present so much better.

We miss out on so many things today because we are waiting for a better tomorrow, when we have more time, more money and a better opportunity. But how many of us actually have better tomorrows? And what today's do have to compare them wih? There is never that "right time" that we wait for.

I myself have waited to do so many things when the time is right. Be it small things like waiting to watch a movie after the exams (which remains unseen) or waiting to buy new furniture till you move in a better place; the wait never ends. We keep on postponing things, and ultimately they lose their charm or we are too old to enjoy them. But we still don't learn.

I have forgotten how to just go with the flow of things... to just do something because you want to do it... to not think of pros and cons. It might be better this way because it makes my life less risky, but then it might all end tomorrow and i'll never get to do the things i wanted most.

I have spent the past 25 years of my life in the pursuit of a career and social standing, and in the end what does it give me? A 14 hour job and dissatisfaction over what i could've been? i waited for the time when i will get a job and i can finally do things my way... but well i'm still not able to do it...

i wish i wouldn't fret over tomorrow so much...

Love Actually

I read somewhere that Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, and the romance in a relationship and find out you still care for that person. This fits with my understanding of love... and therefore says that you an love more than one person at a time :)

what if u started out with caring and gradually built up the feeling and romance.... what if you are just so used to each other that even though you can't stand each other's comapny, you can't think of staying apart... what if seeing tears in someone's eyes makes you want to kill yourself for being the cause of them... i think that love encompasses all feeling... you add them all up and the result is love... be it anger, hate, passion, compassion, tenderness, caring. Everything blends well together, and they show their colours from time to time.

Love is like a kaleidoscope, with ever changing emotions swirling to form beautiful patterns of memories. And everything fits in, there is no piece out of place, no colour that seems bizzare, every feeling is reflected from the mirror of our hearts. Therefore, more the mirrors, better the pattern... :) ( i seem to be patronizing polygamy here)

All i'm trying to say is that love cannot be controlled... you cannot say that if i'm in love with one person that's it... because you have to have feelings connected with every person in your life... and as i just pointed out, love is but the summation of these.

You have to set priorities to make your life easier, but that's just about it...

love is omnipresent...