If you love someone

If you love someone because you think he or she is really gorgeous...

Then it's not love, but it's "infatuation."

If you love someone because you think that you shouldn't leave her

because others think that you shouldn't... 

Then it's not love, but it's "compromise."

If you love someone because you think that you cannot live without her touch...

Then it's not love, but it's "lust."

If you love someone because you have been kissed by her...

Then it's not love, but it's "inferiority complex."

If you love someone you cannot leave her thinking that it would hurt her feelings...

Then it's not love, but it's "charity."

If you love someone because you share everything with her...

Then it's not love, but it's "friendship."

If you get attracted to other people but stay with her without any regrets... that's love.

If you let her go knowing that she has to go but she doesnt want to... that's love.

Regret

There were plenty of subtle clues that when I think about now, seemed to have given me many warnings. It was inevitable the way things were happening, that the end of the road would be anything but what it was. A complete and utter failure.

It was a simple job for some, yet it would have required some others a lifetime of effort to achieve what was achieved. It is a sheer myth that there exists an ability in a person that allows him to deal with any and all situations. Life is a complicated bag full of surprises and perplexing circumstances that are naturally out of every control.

The limitations of time and existence mean that you only have a single opportunity to make even the most important decisions of your life. Mistakes are bound to happen and such mistakes are what cause a lifetime of regret.

There was a time when my life was moving in the best way possible, a life with no regrets. Yet they did come and they arrived in various forms. A regret of the past about a thing that never happened for those actions had made sure a future that can no longer happen. Living with such regret makes every new decision you take in life all the more difficult.

Each new circumstance looks like it has something similar to that failed scenario which you had to endure. The lack of timely decision making just adds more items to that ever-increasing list of things you regret till it starts to overflow. You begin to deny opportunities for fear of failure or getting your heart broken if you get too attached to the results. The only way out of it is to stop regretting everything, a stage impossible to maintain and improbable to attain.