This morning i opened my web browser to search for some stuff (technical ofcourse :) ). As google has this facility to customize you page with 'iGoogle', i also have customized it to display some stuffs which i rarely read. One of the stuffs that i added is "Love quote of the day" [I know this will exhilarate the germ in your right brain to ask why have i added this. Kill that. Its better.]
It just happened by chance [ I liked 'Luck by Chance' :P ], that i read the quote. It read:
"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love". --Neil Gaiman
I refreshed the page and the quote changed to:
"And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit. It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit, And to know that all the blessed dead are standing about you and watching." --Kahlil Gibran
Two tangentially different views on the same topic. For one Love is like cancer whilst for the other it is religion.
