Waiting for love By RabindraNath Tagore
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