How selfless can love actually be? How patient? Does stuff that happens in movies like The Notebook actually happen to real people? How many of us would actually put hours of effort into a relationship for returns that last five minutes? How many of us would be genuinely happy if they love someone who is happy with someone else? Well, I do believe that you haven't really lived fully if you haven't loved someone with all your heart and soul, even if you ended up completely heartbroken. But I think it takes a person of quite extraordinary character to love with complete devotion and selflessness. To give all you have without expecting to receive anything in return. To quote Rekha in Zubeidaa, "Pyaar ki aag dono taraf lagi rahe to jalti rehti hai. Warna bujh jaati hai." (Those may not be the exact words, but they carry the exact message.) Most of us are, well, human. A little selfish. We need a give-and-take relationship. We need returns for the effort we put in. We like making another person happy, but we also need that person to make us happy.
Just a string of thoughts to invite comments from people...
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Now I can't even sleep on Saturday nights!!! So I am writing arbit stuff.
Reference to:
http://searchforrandomness.blogspot.com/2008/06/sleepless-sunday-nights.html
quoting from The Matrix Reloaded, this is what the Architect told Neo
"Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness"
I strongly believe humans don't have any such emotion as "selfless love". Likewise, if at all you happen to notice it in your lifetime, it shall be no more than a manifestation of Hope exhibited by some truly exceptional (either tremendously strong or hopelessly stupid, I can't decide) human beings.
Everyone has hopes; its just that some of us remain only patient enough to be able to express the "love" part of "selfless love"
Ironically, this string of thoughts was written in the most drowsy state that still allows one to key the characters in :-)
aap drowsy state mein generally kaafi interesting baatein likhte ho :)
this time I mostly agree... what you said is quite possibly true to a large extent
we all r humans n feel about selfish love...but there is some selfless love too - i cud recall some movie-"50 1st dates" kinds......there in every mrg d guy tries to convince his lady-luck that they actually love each other and evn after maarrige he reminds her about their love n marrige n d baby too :)
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