Love's in the air! You'll know it when you see the increasing number of young couples on the beach sands, in the shopping malls, in theatres, and in every 'cool' place possible, as Feb 14 beckons us.

Even as 18 and 16-year-old so-called couples go out together, the inevitable question popped up - What is love? Is it going out to these cool places, holding hands? Does love necessarily mean taking your valentine out to a coffee shop, or playing billiards?

Definitely not. For, if love could happen to you just by taking a girl/boy out to a coffee shop, you could fall in love 'n' number of times, even more than once in a day. The 'taking out' concept refers to dating. And dating doesn't necessarily mean love.

For, love is a feeling of the mind. The unexplainable situations when you saw your sweetheart's face in every person you looked at, when your heart beat so loudly, when you saw your loved one's smile everywhere, in the wall, in the bathroom, simply everywhere, those are the situations when you can say you are in love.

When you really care for that special person, when you feel life itself isn't worth living without him/her, then you can say that you have true love for that person. Sounds as weird as Tamil movies, but is the simple truth.

"You will know the real meaning of love when you fall in love." A quote that speaks volumes of the feeling of love. One has to experience it to understand it. Then again, not even the most loving of couples, not even the 'teen couple' boyfriend and girlfriend going out for the past five years, can really understand what true love is. Because it's like that, love's like that, and not one person can claim that he/she has understood the concept of love in its fullest terms.

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. So, if you are in love, take full care of that special person, show him/her that you are concerned, and understand that love actually means something more than just 'going out' to cool places.

Being in love is an amazing feeling.

Srinivasa Ramanujam

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