An Attempt To Get Over My Mental "Blog" :)

Its been ages since I have wanted to blog .. but you know I have been suffering from the worst “writers block” (if there is something like that) for eons now…!! Well I know someone who’d say "that means I haven’t lived long enough!! ":) But for now just think of it as a hyperbole and go on!!

Well I wanted to start off on a good note writing something meaningful rather than something contorted (there are very little chances that I’ll succeed)!! But well I won’t restrain myself too much so if it’s gonna be meaningful it will be, else what the heck there’ll be many more to come :) (Scope for improvement hona chahiye yaar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!).

In school I liked poetry a lot. I even tried to be a poetess – someday when I have nothing else to do I’ll put up one of my “oh so wonderful” poems up on this page if you promise not to laugh. Anyways my dad used to be a teacher of English literature. So our house was almost like a library with tons of books right from Homer to Shakespeare, Shelley to Keats. You name it we had it. I swore to read them all someday. But well that one day is not here yet.

Of all the many poems that I studied, the one that stayed on fresh in my heart till today is “The Marriage of True Minds” by William Shakespeare. I love Shakespeare and I think it’s more because Shakespeare is my dad’s favorite. To the extent that our bedtime stories were usually Hamlet, King Lear and the like.

Anyways before I ramble on too far, coming back to where I started, “The marriage of true minds”. To me this was a poem that was best explained to me by my dad so most of my understanding about this poem is mostly his perspective, which I think I have borrowed for life or rather forcibly taken as an inheritance. This poem in my mind is one of the best love poems ever written. What a wonderful way to describe love – the marriage of true minds. It reiterates what we learn in our epics about Lord Krishna and Radha … though they were never married, their love has become immortal and THAT was a marriage of true minds since it did not become a victim of time’s sickle!!

There are countless times that friends have come to me and told me “Iam in love I am in love I am in love”( meant to sound like that hindi movie song, if you know what I am talking about). Well it has happened to me a number of times too (I know someone will not like to hear this and no points for guessing who that is??!!! :) ). A feeling of finding the real thing(Goldspot the zing thing!! Sorry just had to say that!!!!!!). After a while they come back to me and tell me well, I don’t think this is the one (well not everyone’s name is NEO .. duhhh ..abse naam Neo hai tho hi aage baddh – sorry could’nt resist a PJ, its in my blood!!!!). This is when the line “Love is not love which alters when alteration finds” starts playing in my mind like a background score (or more like how Shahrukh’s mind plays music when he sees the ‘Sen’sational Sush in the masaledar Mai hoo na).

Well Shakespeare definitely defined what true love is, but for me I do want to know whether time is the only way you can find out if its true love. I mean, I keep telling people give it time, you will find out. But when they ask me how long? I have nothing to say. So I think, there should be a better way to determine (atleast so that my counseling sessions are more effective :)). Kiske paas time hai aaj kal to wait for “ages” to find out.

I just wanted to know your thoughts. Read this poem if you can, this indeed according to me is the definition of true love. But it does not tell us how to find out whether this love will not alter nor be shaken by tempests. Is time the only one that has the answer? Or is there a litmus test for true love. If you know of any please contribute!! :)