Love is the food of life

A PECK on the cheek, a worthwhile gaze, a caring hug, a thoughtful gift, a vacation break with someone special, or doing something special for someone you care for the most.

All this sounds very nice and comfortable but still, either because of our work or responsibilities or carelessness, we tend to take our dear ones for granted and miss some special moments to enjoy with them.

There’s no life without love and this one emotion is getting derelict, uncared for and taken for granted. We tend to fall into the trap of presumption that our dear ones will themselves understand our feelings and emotions.

We incompetently fail to express our love and concern to the right people at the right time.

The main reason being that we have engraved in our heads that running behind money, good reputation and a luxurious lifestyle is more important than sparing time for love.

But no, that’s not true and that shouldn’t be acceptable.

What will you do with an empty home, with a fat bank account or a splendid lifestyle if there’s no one around you whom you love or care for?

Balancing our work and relationships can offer satisfaction and contentment. Actually, there’s nothing much to change or plan. Small but meaningful gestures of love are enough to add happiness to our lives.

Some key points to make our loved ones feel special could be - recreating our old beautiful memories, calling them frequently, planning a movie date, cooking delicious food for them, and most importantly, sitting with them without the gadgets and talking to them. Many times, big expensive materialistic gestures fall short in front of tiny moments of warmth and love.

Love is the food of life, and it is paramount to feed it not only to your soul, but also to your dear ones as well. In return, it’ll earn us respect, compassion and comfort.

A happy satisfied brain can only think wisely and to have that, we needs to have a loving heart.

Maintaining a balance between both is only possible if we understand the worth of people around.

Be with the people you love, make them happy, create an aura of blissfulness and be thankful to those who bring a smile to your life. 

Dilute your sorrows, filter your mistakes, evaporate your worries and burn your ego…and there you get the real crystal of love and happiness of your life.

(Preety Praveen is a psychologist and author.)