Love is in the air !

Originally published in my intranet site.

I have no personal experience, but over the years, watching people around me fall in and out of love, some ending in marriage, some simply moving on, the concept of love (as in romance) has never failed to interest me. Some called it divine, some call it a play of hormones, some call it the essence of life. But one thing is for sure, those involved are lost in a different world and those outside find it amusing and funny.

With no offense meant to those in love, here are some ‘norms’ that we outsiders find in the insiders !! Other ‘outsiders’, feel free to add to the list !

a. People on the way to love generally do not use the name of the ’special other’ in their conversations with friends. Sentences usually start with ‘She says’, ‘He thinks’ etc (as if he/she is the only man/woman in the world !) First signal for the friends !!

b. Hand is permanently bent with the mobile literally stuck to the ears. Most of the time on the phone is spent in silences.

c. Non-vegetarians eyeing a vegetarian ‘other’, suddenly talk about turning into vegetarians. People who create a ruckus at home if a day goes by without meat, will be heard making comments like ‘I eat meat very rarely. I don’t like it that much’ etc.

Similarly, if the ‘other’ speaks a different language, the person (who had flunked the exam on his/her mother-tongue, at school), would ‘cutely’ learn words in the ‘other’s’ language and demonstrate it !

d. Guys who have never bothered with books of any kind (except maybe Sportstar etc), suddenly start writing poetry ! Now that emails and internet have become available to most people, these ‘poems’ are usually circulated to a bigger crowd of friends, that includes the ‘other’. The poem typically uses words like ‘Angel’, ‘Flowers’, ‘Soul’, ‘Heart’, ‘Breeze’, ‘Eyes’ etc.

e. Ideas conveyed in the poetry will usually involve how the person was alone all his life, till the ‘other’ came into his life like Breeze, spring etc. Other ideas commonly expressed talk about the scent of the ‘other’s’ hair, gentle nature, sweet voice etc. Comparisons will usually be made to a lot of funny things. (Imagine a person with features exactly like that !!)

f. Guys who would previously laugh at anything and everything, would be reduced to tears on watching sentimental mushy movies and on hearing romantic songs.

g. For the women, voices generally become shriller (choooooooooooo chweeeeeeeeeeet type) when the ‘other’ is around.

h. The gentler side of their nature comes to the front. Women tend to act extremely delicate (’I am soooooooo scared of cockroaches !!’)

i. Guys crack lousy jokes and girls laugh very hard, begging them to stop in such a tone that says ‘Some more’ !!

j.Furtive glances, that move faster than light are often made towards the ‘other’. This again is a specialty with women. Guys are poor at such throwing such glances!

k. An offhand remark about the kind of clothing the ‘other person’ likes, will result in the person wearing it the very next day.

l. In the initial stages, when people around them gossip about them, usually great indignation on their cheap thoughts about their ‘pure friendship’ will be displayed.

m. Chivalry of men is at its peak. Men itch for a chance to rescue their damsels from distress, and silently hope an opportunity presents itself.

n. Friends are usually ignored completely. They are needed only to comfort the person when the ‘other’ is angry with him/her over something. The minute they make up, friends are out of the game again !!