Love

Love - A simple word with complex emotions - PART 1

Love - Its a complicated emotion. As an adolescent I always thought, what is so dramatic about love? What makes it so complicated? It cannot be so hard, I mean what is with all the melodrama that goes around the emotion?! It is just an emotion, plain and simple. How complex could it get? You either love someone or you don't, it's either black or white. There is no room for grey there right? WRONG

Love is as complicated as it can get. It can be seen in it's simplest form between a child and it's parents. No complications, no expectations, no thin lines between love and hatred; just pure unconditional love that knows no bounds. You can never hate your parents, you just don't know how much you love them until you grow up. Because you take that love for granted. In fact you don't even know that it's love.

But all is not as simple when you grow up, when you love other people who are not your parents or siblings. Love comes in different forms. It can be a love - hate relationship between people, or just 'it'c complicated' love. I have a good amount of experience when it comes to love in it's complex forms. Love that is more like an obsession, confusion, desperation, longing, infatuation, rejection, distance yet love where you let people go.

I was 19 when it happened to me. I knew Ray from school days, but there we both kept to ourselves and rarely mingled with each other. School got over and we were onto our different paths, different streams, different colleges. But that one magical day we happened to bump into each other at the movies, and that is when it all started...

Author's Note

Hello fellow writers. This is my first write up. I had all these emotions haunting me since years but one fine day I decided to put them down in words. I am not great at this, just trying to vent all the emotions here. Be kind guys, and please let me know if you like it. Thanks