Love - the madness factor ! :)

"LOVE" - A simple four letter word which has a rather complicated explanation based on each individuals perspective{even after falling in love i find it hard to explain as to what exactly it is:-)}. Anyways, let me not go deep into the explanations or i might get confused!!!!!!!!!!

I have come across enormous lines and quotes which gives a little meaning or can i say a kind of explanation about this wonderful 4 letter word, some of them for example - "LOVE is Blind", "When LOVE is not MADNESS, its not Love", "LOVE - the one word that we use everyday and the one word that words cannot define" etc etc....

Wondering why am i thinking about all these now??? Actually the other day i got a mail - A story which explains why love is blind and the relationship between Love and Madness. Even though i know this is just an imaginary story and holds no reality in it, somehow i felt nice reading it and that is when all these thoughts about Love stalked me. So here is the story - (This is a forwarded mail and i am not the creator ;-))

"A long time ago, before the world was created and humans set foot on it for the first time, virtues and vices floated around and were bored not knowing what to do.

One day Vices and virtues were more bored than ever. Suddenly ingenious came up with an idea.."Lets play Hide and Seek" he said.

All of them liked the idea and immediately Madness shouted - "I want to count ! i want to count!" and since nobody was crazy enough to want to seek madness, all of them agreed.

Madness leaned against a tree and started to count "One ,Two,Three...." and as Madness counted all the vices and virtues went hiding.

Tenderness hung itself on the horn of the moon... Treason hid in a pile of Garbage...Fondness curled up between the clouds... Passion went to the center of the earth... Lie said that it would hide under a stone but instead hid at the bottom of the lake... While Avarice entered a sack that he ended up breaking !!!

Madness continued to count..."Seventy nine,eighty,eighty one..." By this time all the vices and virtues were hidden - except for Love.

For undecided as Love is, he could not decide where to hide and this should not surprise us because we all know how difficult it is to hide Love.

Madness: "ninety five,ninety six,ninety seven..." Just when madness got to one hundred...... Love jumped into a rose bush where he hid. And Madness turned around and shouted: "I am coming, i am coming!"

As Madness turned around, Laziness was the first to be found, because laziness had no energy to hide. Then he found tenderness at the horn of the moon, lie at the bottom of the lake and passion at the centre of the earth.

One by one, madness found the all - except Love. Madness was getting desperate, unable to find love.

Envious of Love, envy whispered to madness - "You only need to find Love and love is hiding in the Rose Bush."

Madness grabbed a wooden pitch fork and stabbed wildly at the rose bush. Madness stabbed and stabbed until a heartbreaking cry made him stop.

Love appeared from the rose bush, covering his face with his hands. Between his fingers ran two trickles of blood from his eyes. Madness, so anxious to find Love, had stabbed love's eyes with the pitch fork.

"What have i done? what have i done!" Madness shouted. "I Have left you blind. How can i repair it?"

And Love answered: " You cannot repair my eyes. But if you want to do something for me, then you can be my guide."

And so from that day on, Love is Blind and is accompanied with Madness."

Yet another year has passed !!!!! so soon the time flies. The previous year(2005) has gone, leaving behind memories-some sweet and some bitter. 2005 has given me the most precious gift - i found my partner for life. The last few days of the previous year is unforgettable and that is because i celebrated my birthday(30th dec) and the New year in a very different way this time.

Every year birthday seems to be the same,the only difference would be the 'Age'. But this time it was something different,something special,exiciting and sad !!!!! Different-because apart from my parents and sis there were so many people with me this time,My would be mother-in-law , my all time lovable Sis-in-law and of course my fiancee. Special - because my Love was with me. Exiciting- because i spent this beautiful day with my fiancee and sad-because as a single it was my last birthday i would be celebrating with my parents and sis.

The details about the gifts i got on my birthday from Dheeraj is worth mentioning in my blog. I got 21 beautiful gifts - a wonderful surprise !!!!!! Here is the list of all 21 gifts :

1. 21 Roses
2. My Fav chocolate mousse cake
3. A huge Birthday Card
4. A Novel- "Gone with the wind"
5. Archies jewellery- a neckchain and earrings
6. A photogragh(Me & Dheeraj in it. Of course!!!)
7. Jewellery Box
8. A wallposter
9. A notebook with love messages in each page
10. A soft toy - Gorilla (a substitute for Dheeraj)
11. A handbag
12. A small book on capricorn and its compatabilty with other sunsigns
13. A hair band
14. A Cute doggie Key chain
15. A mobile chain
16. A coffee mug with my photo(when i was 3 yr old) embossed in it
17. A show piece
18. Chocolates
19. salwar kameez material
20. Perfume
21. A music CD

With all these things and loving people around me my birthday this year was made memorable.And New year was still more fun,one of my maternal cousin Rakesh(well known as Raju) also joined us. So, for New year celebrations there were many people which includes Me,dheeraj,divya,Madhura(my sis),raju,my maami(would be Mother-in-law) and of course my parents. We had loads of fun on 31st dec and the New Year 2006 was invited and accepted by lighting a Bon Fire & enjoying the night !!!!!

So the year 2005 has gone giving the most beautiful memories,i hope the years ahead will also be as beautiful as it was till now for me.