it's true..ain't it?

"it's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all."

i think it is true. or so i'd like to believe. coz i am a die-hard optimist. and after all, 'ummeed par duniya kayam hai..'.

'ummeed' or hope is again something we can define in different ways at different stages of our lives. today i hope for nothing. i want nothing more. i want nothing less. i am comfortable where i am.

coming back to the saying in question, love is a strange thing. we all define it in our own different ways. and guess what, no one is wrong. we make choices in life - on how we want to live and how we want to love. how we choose to love may differ hugely. and the success and failure is really a matter of whether the choice made was as per expectations. that doesn't necessarily make the choice as right or wrong. But things work out at times, and sometimes they don't.

may not be the most pertinent example, nonetheless..sometimes a parent has to let a child go to explore life for itself and find it's own identity - the parent does this selflessly to allow for the child and the circumstances to grow and evolve for the better.

let me close this piece with a positive thought - happiness, satisfaction and comfort lies in the belief that one loves a loved one and always sincerely wishes the loved one well, no matter what.