As if the world wasn’t having enough trouble solving the riddle called LOVE, people these days have

added to the miseries of poor ‘to be philosophers ‘ like myself by adding the adjective PLATONIC to it.

(Don’t worry ,no politics involved in love. On second thoughts, when is it not?)

Now the term might sound as heavy as it may , don’t let it intimidate you. The concept is quite common

and beyond doubt ,omnipresent.

When I first heard about tis ‘TYPE’ I wondered what did poor old chap, Mr. Plato do to earn a categorization

to his name. (Just hoped he wasn’t another Romeo). It was then ,when Google came to the rescue did

I learn about his contribution.

So here is the gist

According to Plato when our souls descend from the heaven on this mortal planet, they are split into

two and during one’s lifetime when one half encounters the other it recognizes it in an instant.

(Hence the term soul mate, I presume). So it’s alike a game ‘ Find the Missing Piece ’.

Fairy Tale so far. Now some real questions.

What if one never finds the other half? (Hello, any customer care out there? ) What if we meet ‘the one’

and miss the chance? Would he return? Is there any time limit (age limit in this game)?

In spite of all the sane question one might ask, aren’t fairy tales always beautiful?

So my search narrows down to one simple question.

What causes humankind , beyond any cultural distinction, to believe in this concept of ‘THE ONE'?

It has been nearly impossible for us to believe that there might be more than one person who catches

as well as matches our own frequencies. Interestingly the notion holds a firm place even in the popular

urban culture. Or why else would even Jerry McGuire say “ soul mates complete each other ”

Without further ado here is the answer .

      “ We are big fans of ready to make. ”

Ready to make a PERFECT LOVE, without putting in much of an effort. Humans have too often been

shy to take things in their own hands. (Why else do you think even religion exists!) And just like religion

we have been getting high on the TONIC OF PLATONIC for ages.

Burdened by our so called busy life, we never seem to work on things that matter. Thus it becomes

imperative that things are provided to us. So we put our allegiances to some random soul-splitting.

Instead of making love from what we have , we end up searching the one we suppose, is already out

there, prim proper and ‘ready to be used.’

This leaves us pretty much clear on the human psychological aspect that led to the creation of this

sugar coated and consequently omnipresent concept of love.

What Next?

Two Things.

1.) Go out.  

2.) Fall in Love.

 

  PS-Only don’t be in a hurry to declare your souls to be identical , instead try and make them compatible.

 

   With this I wrap up my ‘not so sugar coated’ version of LOVE.

    For now I know, at least someone supported my theory (metaphorically, of course) when he said

 

“ All too often , we spend our time waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us. We forget that

paths are made by walking , not waiting. ”  -Robin Sharma