My name is Sangeet,
And today I want to tell you something about love and romance.
Love as pure as it is connects and is connected to everything,
But romantic partnerships seem to be the ones that get the most out of it in so many ways and directions.
We say love,
And that is all it takes for us to think about romance.
And for some reason,
Love and romantic connections between people seem to have an important role in our lives,
From an early age even,
As soon as we develop and recognize the ability to somehow feel attracted to someone else as more than just friends,
As so many of us like to say.
But because we relate love to romance between people,
And because romance between people tends to be full of pleasant and also unpleasant surprises,
We end up feeling and thinking all sorts of pleasant and also unpleasant feelings and thoughts about love.
And sometimes,
Because of this rollercoaster of emotions,
Love may lose its credibility.
Some of us resent it so much that we get reactive,
Almost allergic to the word love.
However,
If we really have to react or to feel anything against anything,
It should never be to love or against love.
Why would we do that?
Love is absolutely marvelous.
Love is the only place where we feel completely safe and at peace.
And in what comes to connections,
If there is anything that we like about them,
Is love.
When pure and true love is present,
Fully present,
Any type of connection feels amazing.
If there is anything that makes us feel bad,
Really bad,
Is the lack of it,
Not its presence.
It is the lack of love that brings up all sorts of negative thoughts,
Words,
And actions.
That is what we end up resenting.
And that is the reason we stop believing in love.
But love is never the cause of our suffering.
Love can only be the cause of our freedom and of our gratitude and appreciation for everything,
Including love.
Fear is what disturbs us and all of our connections.
In fear,
We fear.
In love,
We love.
And when we love,
We move mountains,
Obstacles,
Problems,
And we dissolve all of them with a deep smile of faith and of trust in our hearts.
And still,
We may think that love can be bad.
Because even if there is love,
For so many reasons,
We may suffer.
And not only we may,
But we do suffer,
For sure.
Because even the most tender and beautiful connection can make us feel sad.
And that is because we love it so much that we fear losing it.
And again,
Love is not the cause of our suffering.
Fear is.
And that is ok.
Because in this planet,
One can only be if the other one is as well.
So,
Yes,
We fear and we suffer.
And it is ok.
We end up loving again and again anyway.
Not just in romantic connections,
But in everything.
None of us can run away from love for too long.
Because that would be running away from ourselves.
And that can bring the biggest of all pains.
So,
Today,
Let's close our eyes and be in love.
In love with love,
The genuine love that we truly are.
And whatever romantic relationships we have been experiencing in our lives,
Let's just know that those are not love.
So,
Let's not call them so.
Instead,
And if we really want to give them a name,
Let's call them experiences.
These are not and will never be us.
And this way,
Love is safe and protected.
And so are we.
And with this,
We inevitably smile.
Because finally there is hope for our hearts and the certainty that whatever feels impossible is totally reversible.
Love is real.
Love is us.
Let's honor it and allow it to be.
Love is an energy and it is universally available for all of us.
Which makes true loving experiences,
Including romance,
Always possible in our lives.
