Love? Yes, Love.

Love. It doesn’t make you do crazy stuff just to see the smile of your lover or do out of the world things to make him/her happy. It doesn’t make you go weak on your knees when you see the person you are in love with. It doesn’t make you look your best when you are going to meet him/her. It doesn’t give you immense amount of happiness like no one else ever gave. Same way, it doesn’t give you never ceasing pains. Its not something to die for. And many a times, its not something to live for, either. Love isn’t talking on phone or texting 24/7. It isn’t fantasising about someone all the time. It isn’t  about forgetting your needs or  deeds or your responsibilities towards everything else in the life and being hundred percent dedicated to the one you are in love with. It isn’t about knowing what the other person is upto all the time. It isn’t about just one single person becoming the soul reason for you happiness/sadness/everyday mood/way of living life. Love isn’t about dreaming about a future together.  It isn’t about so many things. But what is it about? Do we have an answer?
Perhaps not.

PS. Loving the person who doesn’t love you back the same way, being happy about the fact that the person your love loves is not you, never  fooling your heart by trying to convince yourself that you don’t love him/her, never censoring your thoughts while talking to him/her, never pretending to be happy when you are not. This is love, baby. Of a different kind. Ooh! Not the “boyfriend-girlfriend” wala love. Much more deeper than that. (hey, not intending to say that that love is a shallow one. No comments ) Yes, this is love. Love Love Love. Well, this is the kind of love when you take someone for granted. No, not  the “future together” “living together” “shaadi vivah” wala love. Its being there always, no matter what  wala love. People call it best friends wala love, bestestest friends wala love. I say, Love.
 Simply,

Love.

PPS: The first part of it might come out as pure shit, but then,perception matters.A lot. :)

Heat's no excuse!

This post has been written for the 'Topic of The Month'- Summers.

Let me tell you in the very beginning itself,  I am not going to rant about how sweaty the summer here gets or how amusing it gets for the water and electricity authority officials to entertain themselves by playing with the supply of the two above mentioned essential quantities; for a simple fact, that I love winters. Oops! I meant summers. Well, both. Winter, for the calmness it bears (and presently, thinking about winter works like what ice does to the back of our neck, when both of them suddenly come in contact.) So the point being, I love summers. Since I haven’t experienced a summer in some other place, I can say, “ I love the summer in Delhi." Owe it to the vacation maybe, I am usually in high spirits during this time, given the large amount of time I can carelessly spend roaming around with friends along the length and breadth of this wonderful city. Now don’t tell me how hectic, stinky, tiring (and whatever adjectives you might love to add) it gets. Come on, I know that. But what I know better is that the fun element in ‘hanging out with friends or roaming alone aimlessly and exploring’ overshadows everything else.  Is there any other time when you can wear even the shortest of your miniskirts (or shorts or whatever shitty names they come up with, every time a new trend sweeps in), display your brand new undergarments (which was initially ‘invented’ to be worn under another layer of clothing. But then again, damn you, evolution!) and not get criticized about? Isn’t this the best time to  feel proud about our very own Delhi metro? Or the plight of ac buses we have! Now let me go back to being a child and count those things that made summers awesome, back then, and frankly, till date! Watermelons. Loads and loads of watermelons! And for mango fans, tons of varieties of mangoes! Heaven! Okay, it’d be inappropriate and would hurt the young sentiments and would be my biggest sin if I don’t mention about the thirst quencher. All time favorite thirst quencher, none other than our dear old yet new banta! And the classis jal jeera and the likes. Though I will never understand the logic of eating garam garam bhutta in garam garam summer (not talking about the harvesting season of corn. ) on a typical summer evening, you will still find every other guy with a bhutta in hand, with their health conscious teeth working out hard! So talking about summer in Delhi, or more like, My summer in Delhi, people, Malls. Loads and loads of malls. Bowling, pool, ice skating, video gaming, laser gaming, and, FOOD. One couldn’t ask for more. And predictably, after all this, when you are out of funds, saddi dilli ki galiyaan will always welcome you with food and fun galore! And, when else do you get the opportunity to flaunt your masters degree in swearing ( Read swearing in different languages, mixing lingos, creating words) and then, blame it all on the heat and irritation caused by it? Don’t we just absolutely love swearing? Blame the heat, but admit it, we do have a lot of fun! Or more like we finds ways of having fun and making the best out of everything.Rewind. No amount of harsh cruel heat prevented us from playing gilli danda or maaram pitti or kancha or pakdam pakdai. And now, no amount of heat prevents us from walking over to a friend’s place or roaming around from shop to shop in sarojini nagar or lajpat nagar looking for that one top which would suit you perfectly (and overlooking the fact that every shop sells the same thing at the same cost ), from rolls to momos in Satya. And no matter the number of never noticed posters warning us about the harms of street food in this season, we’d not mind stopping at the roadside golgappe wala and gulp down that fresh minty pleasure or savour the perfect balance of the white, green and red elements of our paapdi chaat.  We never get tired of eating, do we? Summer is no exception and sweat is no excuse! It sweats? Nothing new, deal with it?! And kick the excuses out of your way, and set your target, the mission is all about having fun! Why lament over the colour of almost non existent water in the summer- Yamuna when you know the rain's awaited and is going to lift us and wrap us in the comforts of the mesmerizing breeze and drive us crazy and make us get out of our air conditioned comfort zones and get drenched in the lovely drops of pure unadulterated priceless pleasure! Well, summer is no less a pleasure.