The Sentimental Idiot !

Love is a very complicated emotion. It’s very powerful, almost consuming. Love reaches into the inner most spaces of our being and pulls on the strings of our souls, the tune thus produced may be one of joyful singing or a palpably sad dirge. Have you seen a man in love? Trust me, Nothing can match the confidence in his actions or the spring in his step. On the flipside, have you ever seen a woman with a broken heart? Can anything compare to the sorrow in her eyes? That’s what love does to you; it can make you feel like a king one day and a complete nobody the very next. What I realized lately is that most of the people around us, no matter how happy they may seem suffer from a very weird but real form of loneliness. They may seem to have it all, but like everyone else at the end of the day we all wish we had someone to hold, someone to cherish, someone set apart from the rest-just for us. Then why is that in a population that exceeds 1,241,000,000

Do you remember the first time someone handed you an autograph book and asked you to write something in it? If you do, I am also sure that no matter how hard you resisted reading other peoples entries, you did actually read them. My first autograph book was that of my chubby friend Sonia whom I had met in math tuition, she was leaving the city and wanted to do so with the best wishes of her close friends. The book was full of excellent autographs. While most of her friends were after tickling her funny bone; a few others had put in some very touching entries. Among the funny ones, one of her friends had pasted a stamp of Gandhiji instead of his picture, to the question What was your first crush? The same guy had written ‘I crushed my classmates foot while I was in first grade’ By far, the funniest autograph in her book was from a friend who said- “Keep in touch, but don’t keep touching”!!! So, What exactly does it mean to keep in touch with someone? The wa