
Is this love or is it Infatuation?
This being a Valentines week I am trying to stick to the theme.
But i dont have and never had anything mushy to say about when it comes to LOuVE.
The very reason I am mentioning "love" AS "LOuVE" shows my lack of seriousness towards the underrated or for that matter over rated word.
Probably because I am too practical or too rational to the extent of being cynical when it comes to love.
So I am writing this basically to clear the misconception of most of you out there who think that
Love, Infatuation and Attraction are 3 different things.
One of these always gives birth to another.
I mean I have heard people falling in "love at first sight" and actually completing their quest for true love and on the other hand I have seen people taking their time to know each other and that time runs into years and years of unconditional commitment only to finally realize that it was just an INFATUATION. Ironic.
Why is there a confusion between these two highly over used and misinterpreted words?
I think everything starts with an infatuation.
Infatuation basically means "temporary" love of adolescent a foolish and usually extravagant passion love or admiration.
But that is what love is all about right? Foolish,immature
Many temporary infatuations make one long lasting love.
The very reason that draws you to a person makes you call, text, think, imagine, fantasize is because you are attracted to him or her due to some kind of infatuation.
You may be infatuated by looks, money, personality, kindness, humour.
So if you are not sure whether what you have between you and your partner is infatuation or love you will be wondering all your life.
And the only way you will come to know about it is if you eventually end up with him/her for the rest of your life and then you can tell the world with a sense of pride " oh! well it was unconditional pure love from the very start"
and god forbid if you break up tomorrow you will tell yourself " oh! well it was nothing but infatuation"
So if its infatuation there is nothing wrong it is meant to be like that.
And if its LOuVE trust me.. it is still a higher degree of INFATUATION.