"Every person looks at things differently.."
I was reflecting upon this statement when I thought of this example -
How would you react if someone tells you that they love you?
The answer of this question took me to three paths of thought...
#1 If the person is of the opposite sex...
- Most probably one will think that they 'love' them in a romantic sense.
- Some will laugh it off..thinking that it is a joke.
- Some till treat it as something to boast about.
- A very few people will take it in a platonic way...unless otherwise specified...and possibly return it.
#2 If the said "person" is of the same sex...
- Honestly, it pains me to say this, but most people will call them a homosexual.
- Some will tell them how much they mean to them as well.
#3 In a general point of view...
Love has become so very commercialized that nowadays whenever one talks about "love" an ugly mental picture of "a boy and a girl" (SRK and Kajol in KKHT? Jai and Aditi in Jaane Tu...?) comes up. Has love become so narrowed that it has been reduced to nothing beyond something temporary shared between a girlfriend and a boyfriend?
Furthermore, a lot of people take the concept of telling someone that they love them too lightly. It's a priceless emotion that mostly seems to have lost value...how often do you tell your parents that you love them? Nowadays girls move out of their homes even before marriage, people live away from their parents - and I'm talking about India...do people not care as much anymore?
Love still exists, but truly it now only bound to definitions and films and songs...nothing more. Why else would people acquire such perverted ideas about it?

