There's a thing called Love

There's a thing called love that we all forget
And it's a wasted love that we all regret
You live your life just once
So don't forget, forget about a thing called LOVE
---- Richard Bedford, Thing Called Love

Love.

What is the very first thing you feel when you read this word?

Take a moment and think.

Once the slideshow of memories and emotions that this word brings, are over, what is left?

Elation. Happiness. Peace.

Or is it regret. Pain. Fear. An intense urge to close this blog and run away to a safe place inside your own mind.

It is said that this is the most powerful emotion. Most powerful weapon, even. True, isn't it? It evokes such varied scales of thoughts in one single person.

Where does it come from? Heart or mind? How can you be sure? Can you ever be?

I find Love very deceiving. What we expect and what it actually does are two different things. It deceives us all at some point. If it isn't present, it makes a person feel empty or incomplete. When it arrives, it is a tornado that uproots everything and leaves devastation in its wake.

Devastation could, at times be a boon. It is a chance to reconstruct and re-evaluate. Make a new life.

Most times though, devastation is pure damage. People move on, but it is never the same again. So, if you want to go away now and read no further, I will understand. Writing this is painful enough.

Maybe, I don't have the capacity to handle this power.

Devious. Deceiving. Alluring. Evasive.
It is all this.

Elation. Hope. Fear. Happiness.
It makes me go through these.

Don't limit it. It can be romantic. Or paternal. Or maternal. Friendly. Pally. Neighbourly.
It could be a teacher. A mentor. A guide. An angel. A devotion. A prayer.
It may instill respect. Faith. Divinity.

It is an entity supremely independent of any shackles. It is free. It is a gypsy. It is heartless.
It affects Mind, Body and, Soul alike.

You can't tame it. You can't own it. You can't understand it. You can't control it.

All we can do. Is feel it.

So, how do you feel about Love?