Falling in LOVE

Hi friends, It’s been a long time since I wrote, may be more than a month. Well, this week when I was traveling I was thinking of writing. I thought a lot and many topics popped up in my brain, but none of them clicked my heart. And then suddenly when I was relaxing today, a superb topic hit my brain and clicked my heart. It’s the topic that every one of us will like to talk about for hours together. It’s a topic that people from all age groups enjoy. A topic that is fresh all the time. The topic is LOVE. It’s about falling in LOVE. How does it feel? Good, right? You suddenly feel that heart beat of yours going at a high speed as though it will keep speeding more and more and you will also want to move at the same speed. It’s a feeling that is enjoyed by each one of us, be it a school going chap, a 14 year old girl or a 60 plus year old man (as in Cheeni Kum). Do you have such feeling at this age? I certainly believe that you have it, fresh and green in your heart. We keep falling in LOVE every now and then. It’s not just about falling in LOVE with a person but it includes many more things around us that make us fall in LOVE.
I have fallen in LOVE for the second time in my life. You may now ask me “Geeta, when was your first time?” Well, those of who know me, in my school days and college days, know it very well that I was a studious kind of girl who was always with books and engrossed in studies and so no time to fall in LOVE. Then who is it that made me fall in LOVE for the first time. But obvious none other than my … . You can guess and I know who know me will guess it right.
Now let’s come back and talk about my second LOVE. These days I have been reading and reading that book has made me fall in LOVE. I am reading a book about a person who has always been taken in the other way by people, a person who deserved to be honoured and who deserved all the worldly pleasures, but was deprived of them, a person who strived and struggled all his life, a person who had to take lot of efforts to be what he wanted to, an altogether unique personality in Mahabharata. Reading about him has made me fall in LOVE with him. What a feeling? It’s a feeling that I have never experienced before, a feeling that takes you on cloud nine. How exciting will it be if he comes back on earth and meets me? I would love to see him and listen to him. I would love to honour and worship him. I would love to talk to him and know him more.
Any guess, what am I talking about? Which book am I referring to? I will surely tell you the name but only after I finish with it. If I tell you now, you will also fall in LOVE with him and at this point of time, I will not like to share him with you. Therefore let me finish and I’ll disclose his name. Till then you can keep guessing and cracking your brain!!!

The way we look at certain things in LIFE

Today, I could find some time to read. I was reading sitting near the window. It was a beautiful evening with fresh and chilly breeze flowing. The time should be around close to 6pm. Just then I noticed some fumes arising from a nearby place. I quickly got up to see what was creating fumes. I noticed that two men were busy gathering the dried up leaves and burning them. Their intention was to clear off the place with all the clutter around made by the dried up leaves.


My mind took a leap and started thinking. I could observe that there were leaves that had dried up and had fallen on the ground, there were some other leaves dried up but still hanging to the branch of the tree and then there were the fresh green leaves as well. As I watched them, my mind started thinking about the whole scenario in a different way. It related the dry and fallen leaves to those people who have completed their journey on mother earth and are now beginning their next journey. The leaves that were dried and still remained attached to the branch were being thought of as those people who are on the verge of completing their journey and are watching those who have already completed. These leaves (people) have some regrets and some have happiness about whatever they faced and achieved in their life.The green leaves were thought of as those who are enjoying their life and may dry up anytime. But they are enjoying as if they would never dry up and never fall down. Just before, I could finish thinking, my mind switched to yet another kind of thought which said something like this. Think of the dry and fallen leaves as those bad qualities that you had and you eradicated them. Now think of the dried leaves that are still on the branch as those qualities which you want to eradicate and nullify them as soon as you can. And now think of those fresh green leaves as those good qualities that you have and you would want to preserve them throughout your life.


I could sense that my mind thought about the scenario in two different ways and I feel that both the thoughts have some lessons for me. Have you ever experienced such kind of thoughts? Do tell me.