Puppy Love

It's strange how a small event or word or statement made casually can send your mind into hours of deep thought. I don't know if it happens to everyone but it does happen with me. I was reading Nicholas Spark's 'The Wedding' and came across a line about how love is more than just three words mumbled before bedtime... I couldn't help but realize how true it is. As we turn 15, this whole new feeling makes a place for itself in our hearts. And as we grow, our experiences with it teach us something at every point. Even if one doesn't have a crush or a partner in teenage, he learns a lot by constantly looking at people who do allow Cupid to let him play his tricks on them. At every step there is a new lesson that awaits us. Be it falling more in love with each other, or finding out that you are drifting apart, love has its own ways of teaching us.I have seen so many friends who keep falling in and out of love every now and then. I have also seen a few who fell in love just once and have managed to hold on tight to that feeling and yet giving it the space to mature with them. I still don't quite understand how it is that all of a sudden some stranger becomes so important to you that everything in your life becomes about him/her. My books, after my mom, have been the ones to help me learn about a lot of aspects of life. They have made me question a couple of things and have also provided me with the answers. One such question that struck my mind while reading today was, is it true that we never forget our first love? And then, in the pages of the same book, I found the answer to my question They are the first ones whom we think about selflessly apart from our families. Someone who other than our family, or friends make us feel special in more than one way. And perhaps the reason behind the feeling being so pure is that we are honest to ourselves. We are naive when it comes to the worldly tricks and have only seen and believed in the positive aspects of life. We fall in love as easily as a child makes friends and also with that same innocence. Everything seems perfect then. As they say, the magic of love takes upon us and everything begins to look beautiful. This book was not about a young couple... It wasn't a typical romantic novel that portrays the hero as the most desirable man and the heroine as the best female on this planet. It was about a couple in their latter half of life, with kids grown up enough to be married. It was about their love for each other from when they first met as teenagers to two old people about to be divorced. It was about the possibility for two people to fall in love all over again even if there has been a lifetime of disappointment between them.
It is rightly said, I presume, that only when someone steps away from you, do you realize their value in your life. It is only when they move away that they teach you that life isn't as easy and beautiful as you have always thought it to be. No doubt that as we grow and mature, we begin to face the cruelties of life, but still in our hearts we hold the hope and the love we had felt at that tender age. And no matter how much we try to get rid of it, it is a part of our life that always stays with us... And sometimes it is the same driving force that let's you find that lost love and fall more deeply in it.