Monday, March 19, 2007

Conditional Love !

Here goes another bit of my interview experiences. Not an experience as such, as I was not involved myself instead overheard someone else. A girl named 'Neha' had all her interview around her name, which actually means love and one of the questions was :Is love always unconditional.

Now, I loved that question coz have done some thinking on it lately...shouldnt the question be : Is love always conditional ? Tell me one person who has loved without putting forward any condition. Ya, the difference might lie in the selfishness of the condition. It could be as vague as "I just want to be with you" and be with you coz you "make me happy". A condition ! Or it could be as defined as "I love you because you are sweet/charming/beautiful/intelligent/stupid" or coz you can "dance/sing/talk sense". A conditional approach to love again !

Now that reminds me of Ayn Rand's logic I read in one of her book. I do not remember the exact line but the sense was "Every act is a selfish act". Fits in well here. Why would you love me if I cannot make you happy or satisfy all the "conditions". So hope you agree by now, there is nothing called unconditional love. But then the point is , are you clear abt what are those conditions you are looking for in your soulmate and are you able to let the saamne wala person know what those are. Well you have to (be clear and be expressive) or its not gonna work out as smooth. And ya, what could you do if the conditions you laid down start changing when everything is just perfect. Well, I have no clue , let me know if you know how to tackle the situation.

2 comments:

ankurindia said...

if there are any conditions then its timepass/fun .. it cant be love .. Love just have one condition , you need to make person always happy whom you love .Her happiness should be more important for you than your own happiness and thats just love ..

Anand Gautam said...

Well......well....well....
this is what i know about myself - i really want her happiness and not mine. And this is something in line with what ankurindia has to say....thats cool!

(you can claim that it is a subconscious manipulation of my mind coz that makes me happy, but writing this consciously, i cannot accept or refute that arguement!)