Love (U have the option of not reading this one)

"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaking suspicion... love actually is all around."


These are beautiful lines. Are they not?
The world today has glorified love as a feeling that can be shared only by a boy and a girl. We should take to time to think about the other forms of love as well.
Yesterday, I was talking to a friend. He has this habit of trying to "win" in everything he does. Why do we have to win? What is it that life is, if we are trying to win? A competition or a war?
Why should I ever enter a war? A war signifies hatred in one or the other form. It hampers love and makes a man kill his brother. No. That is not the way I see life.
I feel that with so much hatred in the world, people's faith in love and its power is diminishing but the fact still remains that hatred can destroy but its only love that can create.
Have you ever taken a careful look at the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle of your life? A very major part of it consists of the people you love and even then here is the world, so angry and violent that we are not even able to believe that love exists.
Talking about relationships, I am not good at keeping them but yes, I am trying to learn from my not-so-good past experiences.
To me love is my reason to live. Its my love for me, my sister, my parents, my friends. They are all very important for me. I have had my share of setbacks in relationships and I could call them them bitter experiences but the thing is that in love, nothing is bitter. It is all about knowing and understanding. We fail to understand love. We glamorize it. But, the truth is that love is the most basic feeling.
What is funny is that youngsters think that just because they have had a break up or someone whom they loved, failed to return it, love does not exist. Oh come on! Relationships break because of lack of maturity and not because of lack of love. Love stays on in various forms. Sometimes that form is hatred. But we fail to understand the true nature of it.
Expectations kill relationships. And in love there should not be any.
To me love and happiness are related. If I hate some one else, I cannot love myself either. And that way, I'll be unhappy. So, I have this simple funda of not hating people.
It is just my stance on this sort of a stuff. Nothing else.