Hide and seek

Human relationships are a fascinating subject. It is difficult to fathom why we like the people we like, it never helps to logically seek reasons for why we cannot stand the sight of somebody or why we become intimidated by the one we love and when you often hold conversations with them fluently in your mind, why it becomes exceedingly difficult to accomplish a friendly exchange in person.

When through your life it is so easy to fall in and out love with different subjects, people, places, cultures, cuisines it is a daunting task indeed to define your feelings for a particular person, place or experience in black and white. Life has numerous shades of grey, it is never easy to isolate an experience or feeling and glorify it as the mother of all feelings. Such an impact is the stuff only writers can contain within the power of their words. The emotions contained within a person often vie with each other for attention that often they become an avalanche that gathers momentum and takes the individual completely by surprise. When this avalanche rolls over the person who feels the emotion, he can but feel the impact of each of these fragments for only a fraction of a second.

I suppose that is why we often get glimpses of something special, fleeting glimpses that come and go. In all this frenzy one needs to capture the moment, savour it and make sense of it before you can even blink. It is a hide and seek game indeed!