I grew up in India watching bollywood movies, believing in the 'made for each other' and the 'one true love' sort of notions. But when you really come to think of it, we all know what love is, independent of lust and sex. Love is when you care for somebody, a lot.
But romantic love is a little bit different. It isn't just love or concern, it's also an expectation, or a desire. Romantic love involves the wish to have a right on another person, to possess in a small way, and be possessed by them. This is what sometimes grows into obsessive love.
The rational mind knows that everything in life is transient. All states of being eventually come to an end and that even emotions are fleeting. The rational accepts this and looks to experience all there is to experience, to develop and mature with each experience and find a deeper understanding of the world and the self.
The gap between the romantic and the rational is dangerous territory. Here you fall in love with people, places, emotions, and want to hold on to them, knowing all the time that one of you will soon leave and move on, and most likely it is you who will feel the need to find another life, if you haven't already put an expiration date to your current life.
You can't help yourself from falling head over heels in love and you cannot stop yourself from breaking your own heart, over and over and over again. That is the curse you live with. You hurt nobody more than you hurt yourself.
You are a traveller
Of both time and space
A collector of memories
But one day, some day,
Those invisible strings will
Finally hold you down
They will let you go no further
You journey will end
But you will find peace in captivity
The strings are memories
Raw, boiling emotion
Sentiment and unshed tears
One day there will be no more space
In the museum of
the antiquities of the past
And the present will be
More beautiful than the promise
of another future.
Stay, stay with me
Hold me down right here,
This is the place
From where I will never want to move on.
But romantic love is a little bit different. It isn't just love or concern, it's also an expectation, or a desire. Romantic love involves the wish to have a right on another person, to possess in a small way, and be possessed by them. This is what sometimes grows into obsessive love.
The rational mind knows that everything in life is transient. All states of being eventually come to an end and that even emotions are fleeting. The rational accepts this and looks to experience all there is to experience, to develop and mature with each experience and find a deeper understanding of the world and the self.
The gap between the romantic and the rational is dangerous territory. Here you fall in love with people, places, emotions, and want to hold on to them, knowing all the time that one of you will soon leave and move on, and most likely it is you who will feel the need to find another life, if you haven't already put an expiration date to your current life.
You can't help yourself from falling head over heels in love and you cannot stop yourself from breaking your own heart, over and over and over again. That is the curse you live with. You hurt nobody more than you hurt yourself.
You are a traveller
Of both time and space
A collector of memories
But one day, some day,
Those invisible strings will
Finally hold you down
They will let you go no further
You journey will end
But you will find peace in captivity
The strings are memories
Raw, boiling emotion
Sentiment and unshed tears
One day there will be no more space
In the museum of
the antiquities of the past
And the present will be
More beautiful than the promise
of another future.
Stay, stay with me
Hold me down right here,
This is the place
From where I will never want to move on.
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