what is Love?

Lol.  I read this as the status update of one my friend on face book: A girl was asked d meaning of LOVE. She Replied: "Sacrificing d admiration of hundreds of boys for facing d criticisms of one idiot"

Don’t know how far this is true, but yes definitely, I thought this will be the next topic of my blog.

What is love? I went about asking many many people this question and am sharing here some of the answers which I found worth to me mentioned.

• Love is One word that frees us of all the weight and pain of life.
• Attention is the most basic form of love; through it we bless and we are blessed.
• We love because it's the only true adventure.
• Love is sharing, caring and giving without expectations.
• Love is seeing your self through someone's eyes and finding yourself in somebody's heart.
• True LOVE doesn't have a happy ending, that's because true love doesn't have an ending.
• Love  means never noticing what time it is or how many hours went by curled up in his arms.
• Love means learning to agree to disagree, and kissing him just to let him know that we were still good....
• It means risking the pain of losing him simply because life without him, even just the memory of him is not life at all.
• Love makes me feel beautiful…….when he says i am the most beautiful woman..

While this exercise of asking continued, I closed my eyes and tried to imagine what love is to me……..This is something for my love…..

Oh my love, I wish I could tell you how much I love you. I love you, I love you and I love you so very much.

I close my eyes to see you, And then open them to see you…yet again.

I feel u surround me all the time, I am entangled in the web of your thoughts always.

Every second I strive to see you, to hear you and to be with you.

This may be a craze to someone but your thoughts are the food for me.

You are mine.  Forever and forever.

Lucky is the man who is the first love of a woman but luckier is the woman who is the last love of a man.

I wish to tell my love so often that please - Find time to realize that there is one person who mean so much to you, for you might wake up one morning losing that person who you thought meant nothing to you.

Once you have loved, you will always love. For what's in your mind may escape but what's in your heart will remain forever.

Letting go has never been easy and holding on can be as difficult. Yet strengths measured not by holding on but by letting go.

And you know what - Men would rather sacrifice love to conquer the world. Women would rather give up the world just to be with someone worth the sacrifice.

Some thoughts are better left unsaid, some feelings are better left kept to yourself, but love has it's way of expressing itself despite the silence. The happier the memory, the deeper it hurts. 

There are so many stars in the sky only some are radiant enough to be noticed. Among those you choose to ignore is the one which was willing to shine for you forever even if your glance remained elsewhere.

It breaks your heart to see the one you love is happy with someone else... but it's more painful to know that the one you love is unhappy with you.

What do I say…. Its just that ….I wish I were a little kid again, coz skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever

Sunrise! There's something very beautiful about watching the light slowly emerge and tinge the dark night with color. What a beauty it is!

As I slowly open my eyes, I turn towards my right, while still lying lazy on my bed. The darkness in my balcony and the cool temperature of a winter day, simply  tempt me to sleep some more time.

And then there I see, up in the sky, the beauty of Gods canvas. With lights so bright and so colorful I jump out of my bed and rush in to the balcony to catch a glimpse of the early morning sky.

Wow! I now know why they say “a thing of beauty is a joy forever”


Every morning, I'd lay about, on the bed, Waiting for the sun to rise.

A familiar sight, a beautiful delight is that sun, I say!

Every morning as the sun rises, I see a beauty of a lifetime.

Every sunrise is a present, A gift from God above,
Gift-wrapped with satin ribbons, Tied with bows of love.

Each day's a new beginning, A time to start anew,
While all the stars are sleeping, the flowers in the garden below are fresh with dew.

Each day's a new creation, Too lovely to ignore,
We may find a blessing, Just outside our door! Who knows?

Every sunrise is a blessing, A gift for just today,
Rejoice my friend, Embrace it before it fades away!

O rising Sun, so fair and gay, What are you bringing me today, I pray,
Of sorrow or of joy to-day?

In Pursuit of Happiness!

Saturday Morning….a lazy day for me. I was going thru the crisp and fresh newspaper over my cuppa chai. The headlines…or rather the image in the headline caught my attention. It was that of Dalai lama giving a speech at HT leadership summit. I rather lazily read the caption below the image. It read “The art of happiness in troubled times” Happiness in troubled times? I thought. How can a person ever be happy in troubled times? I thought of doing a little research on this topic. I found some interesting facts about happiness. I share them here:

Happiness is all of the good that someone experiences combined into one emotion. This emotion can, and usually does, bring out the best in people. So next time you want to look your best….you know what to do…just be happy.

Although things might be hard to deal with at that moment, people need to realize that they will be able to learn from their experiences and that they will learn to take the good from them all. So in troubled times, feed your brain with positive thoughts that this is just your learning time and you are definitely going to reap in good benefits after the trouble passes by.

And remember, In the end, the hard times will help people strive for happiness. Happiness isn't free. You have to earn it and work to keep it. The price for happiness is having to suffer and having to question events that occur during one's life. People need to be able to adapt to their surroundings so that they can get the best out of them.

You can't live your life in fear of what can go wrong. You just need to go out and live your life to the fullest and know that you'll be happy, even if something doesn't go the way that you had planned it to.

Happiness is not a life without problems, but rather the strength to overcome the problems that come our way. There is no such thing as a problem-free life; difficulties are unavoidable. But how we experience and react to our problems depends on us.

And now 20 amazing facts about happiness:

1. Genes and upbringing influence about 50% of the variation in our personal happiness, our circumstances (income and environment) affect only about 10 percent. The remaining 40% is accounted for by our outlook and activities, including our relationships, friendships and jobs, our engagement in the community and our involvement in sports and hobbies.
2. A good mood has a distinct smell. Scientists have found that people can judge whether someone is in a positive mood from their body odour alone.
3. Older people are more satisfied with there lives than younger people: a recent survey by the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention found that people aged 20-24 are sad for an average of 3.4 days per month as opposed to just 2.3 days for people aged 65-74.
4. If you do 20 minutes of exercise, three days per week for six months, your general feeling of happiness will improve by 10-20%.
5. People who rate in the upper reaches of happiness on psychological tests develop about 50% more antibodies than average in response to flu vaccines.
6. According to researchers at The World Database of Happiness at Erasmus University in Holland, Denmark is officially the happiest nation in the world, followed closely by Malta, Switzerland, Iceland, Ireland and Canada.
7. In the USA clinical depression is 3-10 times more common today than two generations ago.
8. Immigrants tend to acquire the happiness characteristics of the nation to which they move, not the nation from which they were born.
9. Richer workers tend to be happier than poorer colleagues, but research suggests that happy people tend to have greater potential to become rich, so it’s a chicken or egg scenario.
10. People who suffer strokes or other debilitating diseases suffer tremendously in the short term but after a while their happiness is only slightly below the average of the population.
11. When people get married their happiness peaks, but after a while their happiness returns to the level it was before they got married.
12. Women tend to experience their all-time lowest life satisfaction at age 37, whereas men typically experience this at 42.
13. Having 100-200 belly laughs a day is the equivalent of a high impact workout, burning off up to 500 calories.
14. Gold doesn't guarantee happiness. Studies of Olympic athletes found that bronze medal winners are happier than silver medal winners and sometimes happier than gold medalists.
15. The late pioneering social psychologist Professor Michael Argyle, who conducted many happiness studies, showed that among the things that made people happy are sport, music and - most of all dancing. Encouraging sports facilities everywhere would greatly increase a nation’s happiness. Group dancing which, which combines, exercise, music, community, touch and rules, also drastically increases happiness.
16. Several studies have shown that a pet can reduce blood pressure and stress, promoting health and happiness.
17. After basic needs are met, extra material wealth has little or no effect on life satisfaction or happiness.
18. People in steady relationships are generally happier than singles.
19. In nations with high levels of income equality, such as the Scandinavian countries, happiness tends to be higher than in nations with unequal wealth distribution, such as the USA. People tend to prefer more local autonomy and more direct democracy to increased income.
20. According to a new look at a 40 year old study on child rearing practices conducted at Harvard University, those children who were hugged and cuddled more grew up to be the happiest.

And for me, the best kind of happiness is when I know that I am able to care for someone and that they care about me too!

Be happy, Celebrate Life.

New year is coming near!

Once you choose hope, anything's possible. This is what im going to believe in. Not that im gonna take this as a resolution. but, with a inspired thought that hope is everything when u have nothing. Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

i read this touching story somewhere and would like to share this with you my friends, as this this the message that i want to give you all before we begin yet another year...a new year.......

Touching life story.....

A young man was getting ready to graduate college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer's showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted.

As Graduation Day approached, the young man awaited signs that his father had purchased the car. Finally, on the morning of his graduation his father called him into his private
study. His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine son, and told him how much he loved him. He handed his son a beautiful wrapped gift box.

Curious, but somewhat disappointed the young man opened the box and found a lovely, leather-bound Bible. Angrily, he raised his voice at his father and said, "With all your money you give me a Bible?" and stormed out of the house, leaving the holy book.

Many years passed and the young man was very successful in business. He had a beautiful home and wonderful family, but realized his father was very old, and thought perhaps he should go to him. He had not seen him since that graduation day. Before he could make
arrangements, he received a telegram telling him his father had passed away, and willed all of his possessions to his son. He needed to come home immediately and take care things.
When he arrived at his father's house, sudden sadness and regret filled his heart.

He began to search his father's important papers and saw the still new Bible, just as he had left it years ago. With tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. As he
read those words, a car key dropped from an envelope taped behind the Bible. It had a tag with the dealer's name, the same dealer who had the sports car he had desired. On the tag was the date of his graduation, and the words...PAID IN FULL.

How many times do we miss God's blessings because they are not packaged as we expected?

I asked for Strength.........
And God gave me Difficulties to make me strong.

I asked for Wisdom.........
And God gave me Problems to solve.

I asked for Prosperity.........
And God gave me Brain and Brawn to work.

I asked for Courage.........
And God gave me Danger to overcome.

I asked for Love.........
And God gave me Troubled people to help.

I asked for Favors.........
And God gave me Opportunities.

I received nothing I wanted ........
I received everything I needed!

Happy New Year, feel blessed and celebrate your life.