What is love?

By Manya Taneja

Love is not just a word, it’s an emotion to express a feeling. However, in today’s time, love is treated like just a four-lettered word with hardly any feeling. Youth often make and break relationships rapidly. Getting attracted to someone, meeting them, making some promises, spending a bit of time, and then breaking up is a frequent phenomenon for them.

Moreover, they avoid commitment, lack understanding, respect, and patience in relationships. Rather, they want to get rid of relationships soon to avoid stressing their lives.

When older people say, “Pyaar to hamare zamane mein hota tha,” I guess, they make sense as that old-school romance was way purer than contemporary romance. It has become quite normal that now people come into a relationship with no future prospects.

According to me, love is like a vegetable that needs to be cooked on a slow flame of trust, seasoned with respect and commitment, made with lots of patience and then flavoured with understanding. During this process, the graph of the taste of love might sometimes turn sweet or sour, but one should understand that these ups and downs are part of it.

So, people should not give up relationships because they are afraid of the responsibility or commitment. Remember, any hurdles can be crossed if you have an understanding partner who constantly encourages you and corrects your mistakes without judging you. Lastly, I will say that we should all stop taking love and relationships lightly and value the feelings of everyone we meet.