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A Beautiful Story

A beautiful story to share in the month I've dedicated to Love.

It is an episode narrated by a nurse:

" It was a busy morning, approximately 8:30 am, when an elderly gentleman, in his 80's, came in to have stitches removed from his thumb.

He stated that he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00 am. I took his vital signs and had him take a seat, knowing it would be over an hour before someone would be able to see him. I saw him looking at his watch and decided, since I was not busy with another patient, I would evaluate his wound.
On examining his wounds I noticed it was well healed, so I talked to one of the doctors, got the needed supplies to remove his stitches and re-dress his wound. While taking care of his wound, we began talking.
I asked him if he had a doctor's appointment this morning, as he was in such a hurry. He told me that he needed to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his wife. I then inquired about her health. He told me that she had been there for a while and that she was avictim of Alzheimer Disease (memory loss).
As we talked, and I finished dressing his wound, I asked if she would be worried if he was a bit late.
He replied that she no longer knew who he was, that she had not recognized him in five years now.
I was surprised, and asked him. "And you still go every morning, even though she doesn't know who you are?"
I had to hold back tears when I heard his answer. He smiled as he patted my hand and said,
"She doesn't know me, but I still know who she is."

I realized that true love is neither physical, nor romantic. True love is an acceptance of all that is, that has been, that will be, and that will not be. "

It's All About Love!

Whether in a relation or not, whether single, looking or not even looking; Love is a feeling which crawls inside without a warning. Even the most cynical feel this emotion within at some point or the other. Its another thing if they never acknowledge it.

Love's an emotion which can only be felt, an emotion which fulfills our beings only when lived to its fullest.

I don't celebrate it... yet I like this day for it makes a whole lot of people feel loving around the world. & thanks to that, whole lot of people feel belonged, cared for & cherished.

Its just a nice way to remind ourselves & express to the fact that we happen to overlook in the rush of living day to day.

Its nice to think of happy faces, content smiles...& that is a whole lot of positivity & energy emulating.

Wish we could not depend on such days only to be felt loved, not depend on occasions like these to feel free to express the love, we have such an amazing capacity to hold in our hearts.

So Wish...!

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My Fav Love Lines from the movies

Of all the romantic movies I've seen so far, some lines have really been too good to forget. From them, these are a few..absolutely mushy.... I'm sure have missed out more, this post will keep getting edited. :)

"ज़र्र्रे ज़र्रे में उसी का नूर है, झांक खुद में वो न तुझसे दूर है ।
इश्क है उस से तो सब से इश्क कर, इश्क है उस से तो सब से इश्क कर,
इस इबादत का यही दस्तूर है।
इसमें उसमे और उस में है वोही, इस में उस में और उस में है वोही ;
यार मेरा हर तरफ भरपूर है....."

-Dilli6 [The ONLY sensible thing about that movie. : ]

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Harry: I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

[Awww..This very dialogue made me go & get the cd of the movie....from the movie, - When Harry met Sally]

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April: You should've got on your knee.

Will: Just shut up! Here... I wanna marry you because you're the first person I wanna look at when I wake up in the morning, and the only one I wanna kiss goodnight. Because the first time that I saw these hands, I couldn't imagine not being able to hold them. But mainly, when you love someone as much as I love you, getting married is the only thing left to do. So, will you, um, marry me?

April: Definitely. Maybe.

-Definitely, Maybe. Howww romantic....

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Melvin: "You make me want to be a better man."

Carol: "That's maybe the best compliment of my life."

-As Good As It Gets

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Dr. Marcia: Tell me what was so special about your wife?

Sam: Well, how long is your program?... Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were suppose to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I'd ever known... I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.

-Sleepless In Seattle. [ Where are such guys??]

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Michael: Kimmy says if you love someone you say it, you say it right then, out loud. Otherwise the moment just...

Julianne: Passes you by...

Michael: Passes you by...

- My Best Friend's wedding. [Very true]

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William: I live in Notting Hill. You live in Beverly Hills. Everyone in the world knows who you are, my mother has trouble remembering my name.

Anna: I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.

Notting Hill- Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts, Classic chemistry!!

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Ike: Look, I guarantee there'll be tough times. I guarantee that at some point, one or both of us is gonna want to get out of this thing. But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life, because I know, in my heart, you're the only one for me.

-Runaway Bride. [Richard Gere was SO SO charming!]

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Jerry: I love you. You... complete me.

- Jerry Maguire [Somehow the number of times I've sat to watch this movie for this dialogue, I've ended up missing it.]

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Girl: "What color are my eyes?" she asks, facing him with her eyes closed.

Boy: " Well, at first glance your eyes are brown. But when the light hits them, they change to amber. And if you look really close around the iris, the color is pure honey. But, when you look into the sun, they almost look green....that's my favorite."

- Monster in Law. [Sighhh! ]

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February Effects

Its That week..the love week, if it is called that. & somehow this year, my thoughts have been going in & out to that thing called love. February is being funny with me this time.

& maybe becoz I do not have anybody to call my own, I'm wondering how would I love him to be, He, whom I'd love to call my own.

Honestly, right now the immediate thought that came to my mind is, I wish for someone like my cell phone. My darling! [Now, that's the first ever time I've called it that... but I know its worth now, so I shall acknowledge. :P] Told you, February is being funny with me this time.

My phone had been with me for almost 18 months now..& its gone through a lot. It is a very modest piece, no hi-fi stuff, not even a CAMERA! [That should be provided with EVERY phone model according to me!! : ]

Anyways, my phone in the last 18 months must have taken a fall some 18 number of times atleast & in all kinds of surfaces. [OK, 18 times is maybe a littttle exaggerated, but 10 I've counted. Whatever.., The beauty is that it's still been good to me, & that's what's counting. & touchwood to that! ]
Point is, even after being a simplest of pieces, having been thro' a li'l less than careful handling, yet, it has been loyal to me..with nothing ever happening to it; except maybe the battery splitting & falling out a few times.

I wish for a man like that. Who even if I fail sometimes, he'd be sound & solid behind me. If I fall anytime, he would gently pull me up again & ease the pain just by his words.... Will support & give me reassurance that, "It's all OK. I'm still here."
& Even if I do not live upto his expectations at times, I will be happy in the knowledge that, "Yes. I'm secure in his love, in our relation."

& in understanding, I too shall naturally overlook his lil peeves like no camera, limited memory... [remember..? :P] et al.
Coz I do know for all of this what I am wishing & hoping, I know very well that I am worth it & special...& whoever I share myself with would be as much more special too.
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Love is...

When you feel someone has really gone inside...somewhere deep within.
When you are unable to find out how deep, where inside is he stuck.. & you wonder how on Earth will you remove him from within there.

Love is,
When you finally recede & realise that he is hidden himself comfortably, somewhere within you, your existence...
...& You don't mind it.

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Messages from God

Sometimes when you really need some kind of guidance, some kind of sign & no reply comes to you from anywhere, that's when a message from God comes & it just seems like what the doctor ordered. To me they come in the most obvious of forms in my mailbox & I immediately start calming down.

These have been some of the Wonderful messages I have received on the occasions I have felt lost..& sometimes the messages have joined me in my happiness too..

"On this day of your life, Biraj, I believe God wants you to know...
....that you are part of a Larger Whole, and you are
never, ever alone.

It is tempting, during difficult times, to feel very much
alone, as if you are taking this journey in solo form,
with no one at your side, and no one on your side.
Nothing could be further from the truth.

You are an aspect of The Divine. God lives in you,
through you. "I am with you always, even unto the end
of time" are not just pretty words. They are truth."

"On this day of your life, Biraj, I believe God wants you to know...
....that every day--nay, every moment--you will have a
chance to be Right or to be Love.

Your choice will define who you are.

You will not have to think but a second to know
exactly why you received this message today."

On this day of your life, Biraj, I believe God wants you to know...
..that there is no 'right way' to do anything, there is only
the way you are doing it.

Never be afraid to "try your hand" because you don't
want to might make a mistake or not do something
"right." Success in life comes from being willing to move
into Unchartered Territory.

Always remember: Life begins at the end of your
Comfort Zone.

You will not have to think but a second to know
exactly why you received this message today.

On this day of your life, Biraj, I believe God wants you to know...
...that wisdom is learning what to overlook.

William James said that, and he had it absolutely right.
And someone in your life right now is hoping, praying,
that you will overlook their faults, their foibles, their
most recent mistake.

Will you? The Universe invites you to say yes.

You will not have to think but a second to know
exactly why you received this message today."

Yes, I've never taken a second to understand why I received the particular message on the particular day. It only reaffirms to me the message from above, 'Go on Girl, I'm looking over you!'

& I can't Thank him enough for that.

Let's Connect

I can't help liking February. Its the month of love.

Before anyone starts smirking, I'd like to add that, yes I do love the word Love. Hopelessly, hopefully, mindlessly, mindfully...esp since I've been touched by it. I do know how it feels.

But hey it isin't about 'love-love' only. We can always use a good reason to do something more good. Can't we?

The world of urban cities we live in today is such that we need two OS at home, even if there only are two people residing there. We are thus called modern day people!

We are taking our relations so much for granted, that we forget...rather bypass connecting to the person sitting in the same four walls, with whom we are intimately related, for whom we claim to work so hard, whom we claim to love so much; but we login to the world's wicked window's [www!!] to get in touch with a whole lot of friends out there.

I have nothing against the WWW's at all. As a matter of fact, I am communicating myself through that very medium.

But there is a line for all, an understanding for how much is allowed. That seems to have blurred. Nobody's fault actually. The way we have begun to live, this has become an naturally extended ununderstood reality of life.

I sometimes find it difficult to believe the dictionary meaning of the word, Connect. We feel we are connecting to the people we love, value, through these mediums, yet we do not connect to the people who deal with us in our everyday life, who really cherish us. Love is expressed rather very strangely these days.

Did someone change the meanings while I was looking somewhere away?

No?

Good!!

So, let's correct those little flaws before they turn out into failing glitches of our life pattern.

Let's connect. Connect to the people we love, connect to the humans around us. Who make up our life.. & let's try to abstain believing that connecting to some acquaintances or a random strangers out there, over connecting to the people who have been with us through a period of time, is going to give an inner sense of happiness.

Let's get real. Let's connect to real people.

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