Volunteers from Squad for Change, the Wishes and Blessings volunteering wing, were invited to share their views on what love is as part of the yearlong campaign of #WBCares. February is the month of love, and the volunteers went all out to share what they thought love means. Here are the shortlisted pieces!
Manya Garg
Love for me is the feeling of laughing wholeheartedly. Love is when someone can make you feel special, confident about yourself, even your flaws- they celebrate your imperfections as well. It’s unconditional and makes you feel good on the inside. I think loving yourself first is more important. It keeps notes of the times when you feel your most confident, the people that make you smile and laugh until your stomach hurts and the moments that were incredibly challenging but you’re thankful for, as those moments, no matter how hard they were, led you to the person you are today. You see, self-love isn’t about loving yourself and everything that happens to you; wanting to be painfully honest with yourself is unconditional self-love.
You don’t need someone else to remind you that you have value, the beating in your heart is already a reminder of that. Be at peace with yourself, be gentle with your heart. You are special just remember that.
“All forms of love are necessary, and none are to be ignored, but all of us find some forms of love to be more emotionally valuable to us. They are a currency that we find particularly precious, a language that delivers the message of love to our hearts with the most power…”-Timothy Keller.
Manushree Datta
“That’s a hard one to do but that’s what love is.”
Love is a beautiful 4 letter word that can set your heart on fire, make you feel deeply for someone or for yourself. When you are in love you just accept the person with the flaws because those flaws are nothing in love. It teaches you to accept the person the way they are.
Love is unconditional, it is pious. Loving someone under every circumstance, standing with them no matter what, loving them with all your heart without any expectations, any demands in return because it is all about giving.
What you want is never important but what the other person needs and wants is always paramount. Isn’t it crazy? Sacrificing yourself just to win that smile, this love is selfless, this love is kind.
Love is when you choose to be at your best when the other person is not at their best. Love is something worth fighting for. Caring about someone beyond rationality and wanting them to have everything that they want, no matter how much it destroys you to the core, is love for me. Love just happens, it flows through you, drives itself within you. Just filling you and emptying you at once.
Love is forgiving, it is not something to give up on or to move on from. Love is freedom in those boundaries that gives you the power and the confidence to break the chains.
It sets you free. It reforms you into this person whom you have never met before, yet, a part of you. Love is peace in that chaos, calm yet loud, simple yet crazy, sorted yet messy, soothing yet disturbing. Those tears make sense when you are in love. A glimpse is enough to savour it. Yes, this love exists, just feel it, savour it and wait how things turn out for you. Just don’t hold onto it tightly else it will slip away.
“If we cease to believe in love why would we want to live?”
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