Keep Love Alive..

I posted the quote on insta in April. I don't know why but this question has continued to be a new unsolved mystery offlate.

Chetan recieved a few replies from his friends when he added this to his story. One of them said trust and understanding. Another one of his friends said that the fact that your partner is with you irrespective of the situation keeps love alive.

They were good replies but somehow did not answer my question. I left it at that continuing to be intrigued.

Today while I chatted with an old friend, I shooted this question. Excerpts from our chat are as follows.
Me : What keeps love alive?
He : Trust and bonding
Me : You din't get the question
He : Elaborate
Me: Love is this world can be felt and expressed towards anything and anyone. Its vast.
He : Right
Me : Trust and bonding happens with people and animals

I understood I needed to explain further so I went on..
Me : Love is universal agree?
He : yesss, no doubt
Me: you love your parents?
He : yesss
Me : country
He : yesss
Me : children
He : yesss
Me : then how can you put all this love in the bracket of trust and bonding?

He : agreed. Now I get that
Me : do you agree that we keep loving someone even without talking, meeting or being in touch?
He : yesss
Me : it's an emotion right, a feeling that never dies.
He : true that
Me : so now tell me what keeps love alive
He : emotions???

Me : for example, you love someone as a child or a teenager, a school teacher, a crush or something like that. Imagine one such person
He : yesss
Me : now after all these years, you have a family, work, you have grown in more than one way.
He : true, your thoughts are too deep and accurate
Me : but when you think of that one person, it makes you smile.
He : satyavachan
Me : your memories are always happy no matter how you parted ways.
He :  sahi
Me : and all these years you have had no contact so there's no question of trust and bonding.
He : its an emotion
Me : love itself is an emotion, so what keeps it alive??

In the end, may be after a lot of forceful deliberation he replied.
He : love for me is complex. Its a mix of emotions, behaviours and beliefs associated with strong feelings of affection, protectiveness, warmth and respect for another person. It can either be for animals, love for freedom or love for a hobby.

I realized that I really pushed his normal mental state to become a deep thinker. He did somehow decipher the meaning of love but my question remained unanswered yet again.

I am of the view that we can feel love for anything and anyone. A person, a hobby, a song, a habit, nature, our country, a sport, our work or even God. And while I write this, I got my answer... What keeps it alive is Dedication...

Look up the dictionary and you find the meaning of dedication saying wanting to give your time and energy to something because you feel it is important.

And finally I am content. Irrespective of the age, distance and years that have passed, regardless of playing a sport or not, whether we continue to pursue a hobby or not, our dedication towards that something or someone is what keeps our love alive.

We never see God, but we do give our time and channel our energy to pray. This keeps our love for God alive.

So continue to love whatever you once did, try to restart a hobby, make contact with lost friends, apologize for your mistakes and forgive others and yourself. Give your time and energy to good things and love shall prevail.

However, the question is still open. What do you think?? I'd love to get replies.

Keep the love alive.


CHEERS!
GOD BLESS!!


CHS