A light in the darkness

This poem is inspired by Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem " How do I love thee? " Since it is a sonnet, I will write it in the same form. I will borrow the first line only. I tried to understand what makes a person feel loved. I took insights from various posts and Gary Chapman's book " Five Love Languages. " How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. First I thought, I will do all as you say and I saw myself like the fading rays so I thought to gift you a starry day but still you forgot out bondage which made me feel used up still, I gathered courage and filled my admiration cup only to discover missing passion.  I thought togetherness was less but that wasn't your mission. when I felt you in me and caressed your need as mine that I found the loving bliss of thee. This post is a part of  Blogchatter Half Marathon 2025

  We all want the good, the best. Isn't it? That was the reason why I wrote my last post on organizing the importants over the urgent. Those who have followed my previous posts know what I mean when I say quadrant II. Quadrant II is that place where we know what is not so urgent, but it is important. This is the most preferred state of life to be lived to keep aside those things that are not urgent and focus on what is important.  This search landed me on the L-factor. Covey, in his book First Things First,  says that there are basic human needs: to live, to love, to learn, and to leave a legacy. Something similar was what Abraham Maslow had been speaking about in 1943 in his hierarchy theory/need theory. The heading of his paper was "The Theory of Human Motivation." Yes, our needs are our source of motivation, and motivation is integral to our lives. If we are motivated, our work is done so swiftly, whereas when we are demotivated, we don't feel like doing these t...

Life is full of great surprises. One such surprise is the essence of love. Watching the movies of 1960–1990, the concept of love had always been that goody-goody only. Later on, I realised that love is far more beautiful than all of these. As I moved further and was trying to define what love really means, I happened to read one of the books by Dr. Gary Chapman, "The Five Languages of Love." In this book, his first chapter begins with an old couple who have been divorced and are with another wife, he says. "What happens to love after marriage?" That was probably the most striking question that gave much meaning to what I read in that book. This book helped me a lot to understand love as a gift for others. My meaning for this quest for love was further enhanced as I was reading poem 17 of "Gitanjali." Rabindra Nath Tagore so beautifully opened the poem with these lines: "I am only waiting for love to give myself up at last into his hands." If you ...