Love - the eternal question

Love...it happens to most of us during the course of our existence. Different people call it by different names. When boy meets girl, there are quite a few things that can happen. It is tough to label and bracket them with strict definitions, but here's an attempt...

Lust: When your BODY says go for it, just do it and nothing else matters.In some parts of the world, this phenomenon is also called Love at first sight... he hehehe!

Infatuation: When your HEART says go for it but MIND says otherwise.

Platonic: When your SOUL falls for it, but BODY plays spoilsport.(I remember a definition of platonic that goes: the interval between the first meeting and the first kiss)

Arranged relationship (the arranged marriage phenomenon): When your MIND says you can make it work, it's just perfect and this is the person!

Love: When your HEART, MIND, BODY and SOUL realises and agrees that you are happy just being with this person!

Crush: When something about the person appeals to either your HEART, MIND, BODY or SOUL but you don't want to do anything about it.

But again, these definitions are just words...

As we grow older, we start adding criteria to our love with the pretext of maturity. We give it names and definitions as I have just done.

But truly, at the end of the day it's just about time and space. The more time and space you spend with one person, the more likely that you are going to be attached to them and at some point, even fall in love. It's very scientific at some level. Which is why arranged marriages in India WORK. Two people who spend a lot of time and space together, discover each other and learn to live unconditionally, in spite of what the other person actually is. Even if he/she is ugly, fat, lazy, stupid, evil, loathsome or diametrically opposite to what you really wanted.

It is the will that matters. The resolve. Determination. Add Understanding each other to that and any two people in this world can live with each other.

Love is that unconditional 'being-there-for-the-other' element which keeps people together. Which is why best friends make great life partners and great life partners make best friends.

I wudn't say this is a totally accurate observation... but yeah, this is wat Sudhish thinks! And he should know!