A Beautiful Mind

Sometimes my friend comes & asks me questions, which leads to a long discussion. She has asked me two of these in the past few days.
Before the question, let me give you the background of the first question.
She told me two girls had joined in her friend’s office. One of the girl’s brother also works in the same office. That girl’s brother & her friend fell into love & now are about to get married. So, what happened?
On this my friend said, c’mon how can someone love her friend’s brother. (As if it’s the first time she heard something like this :-))
She then asked me, “If you were in her position, would you have loved your friend’s brother?”
She always keeps puzzling me by putting me in others shoes & before I could speak she says confidently, I know you won’t. Usually I smile back & she laughs. But this time I surprised her by giving an answer.

I just winked & said ‘Hey, it depends on how good is my friend’s brother.’ ;-)
She just could not resist laughing.

Then other day she came up with another strange question. Now I don’t know the plot behind this question. ;-)

But the question was “Do you think there is something like one-sided love?”

No, please don’t think she is falling in love with someone and it is one-sided. She already shares a mature relationship with someone special.
Before I could answer, she like her usual habit blurted out, “No yaar, I don’t think there is anything like that.”
I was still clogged with the thought that what is she saying? I have myself witnessed many situations like:

A) A boy falls into love with a girl or vice-versa but never gets courage to propose, later both of them get married to different persons in life…
Just because they didn’t have courage to express their feelings, was it not love…or can it be assumed it was just one-sided & they never regretted in their life that at least they would have said it once…..

B) A boy falls into love with a girl or vice-versa, either of them gathers courage to express it but the other denies….
Just because other person denies, for whatsoever reasons, the love of that person holds null & void….or it can be assumed that this person will forget that love of the life & live happily, may be, but not always….

C) A boy falls into love with a girl or vice-versa, either of them gathers courage to express it but before he/she could express, tells to parents and…parents don’t agree, so instead of hurting the parents, he or she decides to forget…
Just because they didn’t have courage to hurt their parents’ feelings, was it not love….or can it be assumed it was just one-sided…..

I think love is just love. Its pure, pious & simple just like your lover….there are no sides, dimensions & angles to it….there are no expectations except the anticipation of being with your love…there are situations in life where we can’t accept someone’s love, before denying think about the depth of the person’s love, if its momentary don’t look back but if its unfeigned and still you can’t accept, at least respect the feelings of that person and be thankful to God that someone prays somewhere for your well-being even when you are sleeping….
I was bubbled with emotions & so I replied to her the same.