There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
George Sand
I will be honest, however much I crib about life, I have actually had a good run thus far. I have been very privileged, and one of my biggest blessings is the gift of love, especially being on the receiving end of it.
I am a hopeless romantic at heart. The smallest things make me cry, from an emotional scene in a movie to reading about a sad news story. It is probably also because I am a big believer in the value of “love” as an emotion and a feeling. I try to find it everywhere around me, I try to give all the love in my heart in every direction, it is truly what defines me. I try to love every person in my life and everything around me. Of late, I have even found love in people I hate, gaining courage to use love as a way to forgive them. Love has helped me survive my biggest tragedies and it has led me to my biggest wins.
As a person that tries to give out love so much, it is only natural that I get enough of it back, and then some more. I am blessed to have a family that truly loves me and accepts me for who I am and cares for me. I feel the love of my wife and my three cats every day. From small gestures of care to gargantuan acts of love, they make me feel special every single day. It is hard to pick a positive example where I felt loved when there are simply too many to list.
I don’t need to look far for a positive example. I wake up every day feeling loved by my pets who cuddle up to me. I feel my wife’s care and love for me in every small gesture. Just being in the presence of my family makes me feel loved. I am feeling it (yes, present continuous tense), as I write this sentence.
Sometimes, I wonder, am I worthy of all this love and kindness from the world? As I lose myself pondering on this very though, a random act of kindness from a loved one wakes me up from my reverie.
What can I say? C’est la vie!
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Hari Shanker R 
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