I came across this a while back, and remembered it today. I dont hate love, but am avoiding it for precisely these reasons. Bright side is, the description of love is so beautifully true. Read it I say...
"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, 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 kiss you or 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.”
Gaiman is the man
Jigsaw
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Very menacingly painful statements. You portray truth that many people hide because they are too bitter to expose.Nicely written.Hats off ...
i'd love to take credit for this, but it was written by Neil Gaiman.
Oh I see. And your blogging frequency has come down. Would like to see more posts
With best regards,
Harish
well i guess its because i'm happier :) its my curse....i can write only when i feel down.....even if i write happy stuff, it means i'm down.....guess a poet needs his pain
But man we mofos love that pain too :).That's the root of the problem. Wish somthing like tsunami warning system is kept in place inside our heads.
we can try. thats all we can do.
These lines were on Grey's Anatomy too. I love them. Very well written.
hmm what is being described is not love my friend. true love has no conditions or expectations and hence it is the most glorious experience existance has to offer.
@SB -
I appreciate what you've said, although I think you are too much under the influence of a certain Mr. Shah Rukh Khan and the message most of his movies propagate. In my opinion, true love is not completely devoid of expectation. If you cant expect someone to love you back, what the hell is the point in loving anyway? Love is beautiful, calm and serene. Love is also proud of the fact that it can love. Being able to love in spite of pain. Now THAT is true love. When it doesn't hurt, you are not in love. You just say you are.
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