OVERJOYED MELANCHOLY

CHAPTER 11 : WHAT IS LOVE?

This is my favourite topic to talk about. To those who says love makes you week probably don't know the real meaning of love.

Love is everything in this universe. Mother's love , father's love , sister's love , friend's love , brother's love , your lover and his or her love . Love is present in everything and anything we touch , feel , we have or we want. If love wasn't there we didn't exist, nobody actually existed.

Love isn't bad its just a feeling like every other feeling. I believe that if it's love it should be love , just like happiness. Love should just be love.

We think that love include anger , greed , jealousy , possessiveness, ego and all but reality is that love is over everything. Love is everything. The power of love can take you from zero to ten. Love doesn't include ego , anger , attraction, these are just the steps every lover experience. But the moment we get over these emotions love comes.

As love is again an individual emotion . We mix it with happiness, anger , gratefulness, jealousy etc. but love is a mixture of both positive and negative emotions that makes one emotion i.e love.

What do we mix in love ?

Fear , attraction , anger , jealousy , ego , fear of rejection , fear of getting caught fear of accepting the truth.

Attraction happens to all of us , and some people call that love.

Anger , anger is the enemy of everything and everyone in this present world. This destroys the relationship of everyone with us, the relations made/build with love can be destroyed by anger.

Jealousy is the sign of attraction and not true affection or love we can say. If we don't , basically if we don't believe our partners , we often have jealousy " Maybe he/she must be cheating or talking to someone else "

Lastly ego. In love we should think of our partners as if they are equal to us. Not above , not below . This is a sign if being egoistic. You and your partner or anyone you love are always the same , even if they're your parents. They should be binded with truth, trust , love , not by ego . Ego kills.

Again one more , and that is " Wanna be like you " this attitude sometimes misguides us . We wanna become like our partners but later it turns out like " I wanna be you " and thats where the problem starts. Being like you was never a problem but being you will always stay as an issue.

We see them as inferior in front of them if we ever want to be them we do everything they do and do wrong with ourselves, and this may break the bonds in future situations.

Love is about the emotions like - Gifting each other , happiness , gratefulness, being with each other , always having each other , sweetness, lovable, positivity, and all the happy emotions creating a super emotion. Not what makes you away like anger , ego etc.

HOW LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL ?

• Love is sacrificing , love is something that connects us to god . By sacrificing I mean sacrificing everything we have , even if it's our love for someone we love the most. Love is that power where we can love someone truly and hopefully even if they don't love us, and that's how we're in a position to sacrifice everything we've. Being in love means connecting to god , connecting to this universe. Love is something that is away from pleasures, away and beyond from s*x or l**t . Love is a soul thing . Love is praying , servicing and devotion towards your partner. We truly love when we're always praying for our lover. On the other hand , when we're servicing them by servicing I mean caring ,bringing them on top , hoping for the best for them , always trying to serve them all the time . And lastly Devotion. Being like a devotee to your partner who can sacrifice anything for them even if they don't love us being always in love and servicing them just like a devotee who serve god , because we're nothing but one of them - God.

Love is a complection of " we " instead of " me " . I've told this many times but I'm telling it again that when we're in love , we're supposed to be " we " and we're never supposed to be thinking about us , not only ourselves , but we should think of the other person as if we're one.

Love is about giving , expecting nothing in return , that's what a devotee does. He just serve and that's how love is.

We should always have a giving attitude, instead of dying to get something. And again love is not just a boy or a girl love is everything in this world , maybe your parents, sister, brother, friends, grandparents, teachers , your pet , your career , art , music , rain , clouds , and most powerful of all of them GOD. Love is where , when partners are ready to do selfless love and service in order to love them fully and always beyond this world. Lastly, love is beautiful, love is the most powerful feeling in this world, love is peace , love is war , love is sacrifice, love is getting everything, love is pain , love is medicine, love is god , love is us humans.

Love is EVERYTHING.