Saturday 11 June 2016

Living in the garden of love

Millions of words, millions of stories, millions of songs describe the beautiful feeling called love. Even after that, I believe that love is a feeling beyond these words songs and stories. There are different forms of love experienced at different stages of life. It starts even before we step into
the world. That is when we are sleeping peacefully in the womb of our mother.

The mother expresses her love to the infant in the womb in the form of the nutritional food she takes even though she does not like the taste. In the form of a soft sweater, that she weaves and imagine her cute little baby wearing that sweater. In the form of that magical touch which can only be felt. That is the first form of love that a person can experience and responds to that love by the move which only a mother can feel. Thereby, acknowledging the love that was felt for the first time.

As soon as the baby comes out, it will experience another form of love by the kiss from the father and the warm hug that soothe the crying baby. In the form of cute names that the neighbors and relatives call. Sometimes, in the form of toys, chocolates, ice creams and sweets for his sweet little kid. If these are the seeds of love implanted in the early stages of life, there is more than this for the kid when the seeds sprouts and starts growing up in the garden of love. Sometimes it is experienced in the form of the moral values that a child receives from the teacher. Sometimes in the form of bedtime stories that the grandpa narrates and in the form of crunchy snacks that grandma prepares. Sometimes it exhibits in the form of a fight with a sibling and a help from a friend.

Nurtured by mother, father, grandparents, relatives neighbors, siblings, friends the implanted love grows wide and green in the garden of love. By that time, a person will be in his teenage. At this stage, the person experiences love in the form of the unseen dream that is seen at the glance of that special person. In the form of a special feeling, when that special person pass by. At this stage of life, sometimes pruning becomes essential if the plant is growing wider than expected.

Pruned and beautified, the plant starts adding glory to the garden of love. By this time, the plant will be having thick stems and few buds at the tip of the stem. By then, the person will be an adult. At this point of time, he experiences love in the form of care from his spouse. With this, the buds start blooming and the plant in the garden of love will start the transformation into a tree. The flower becomes a fruit. The fruit will become a seed and the seed will be implanted into the heart of another infant.

How beautiful this cycle of love is! This never ends and this garden of love will grow without any boundaries and this garden will have only those plants and trees that never dry. Everything will be green fertile, glorious and colorful. Every person who is born in this garden will be 'living in the garden of love' forever. Love never ends. It grows far and wide along with the time.