Selfless Love

Ask a person what is that one selfless act of love that he has done in his life and judge him by his reply.

Yes, but this does require that you yourself are like that and are into selfless love. As per my experience most human beings on earth are not. Does not matter what your current designation in life is. Whether you are just somebody's child or a new-born's mom or mom of a teenager or a grand mom. And equally for the men. I have come to realize there are some of us for whom specific targets and thinking do not matter. These people do not love you because you fulfilled some tick mark in their sheet of requirements. They love you mostly because they believe in the idea of love and also crave love. They would stand by you, make you comfortable and you would become the center of their world. Does not matter if they have time, or something else is conflicting, or there is something lacking in you. They love the whole of you and in turn make you Whole. And trust me they are the rarest to find. So you are damn lucky if you have found one. Hold on tight and keep him/her safe.

Then there are the other lot and yes, a whole lot of them out there. Again gender irrespective. So they have led their lives believing that Things and Stuff and Status are far more important than anything living or dead on this world. Oh! you knew immediately a bunch of people in your head who satisfy this category, didn’t you?? Well, yes they are the more common phenomenon and are the concept of a common man/woman in today's world. They also fall in love(so called) marry, have families and live a fulfilled life. For them love is more like convenience. Well will the other person be able to fulfill so and so requirement of his/her. And these are as varied from earning money to looking after parents to being sharp and intelligent to have stimulating conversations. And once in a long term relationship with them if both the partners are like that, then it’s fine. Else you start to notice that the relationship deteriorates within a span of 1 - 2 years. Again, you have to understand 75% of the population being like this chances are you are in a relationship in which both of you survive on thinking about the benefit of it. In which case it is a perfect relation and nothing to lose.

The problem happens when one of the partner's is not the kinds who entered into the relation with a checklist and the question 'What is in it for me?' Well, maybe it’s a very common phenomenon in the current world to check every aspect of your being with the question 'What's in it for me?' I would still like to believe that we still have enough and more people living who do not lead their lives based on this Mantra!!!

 And this is where I say ask the person for his one selfless act of love . Or at least when you describe such a thing check if they are able to relate and empathize with it. Then you know that their sole purpose on earth is not to have the scale tilt to their side for the answer of ‘What’s in it for me?’

And well if you are on the receiving end then Good Luck!