of love and growing plants

Love is very much similar to the growth of a seedling into a plant.

Just as a plant requires nutritious soil, water, sunlight and its own chlorophyll, a relationship needs to be built on a solid base of understanding, it has to be regularly showered with love, basked in warmth and compassion, and not to forget, it has to maintain the chemistry that is seemingly programmed in this special bond shared between two (and only two) parties.

A seedling grows at its fastest rate during its early phases of germination as it mobilizes the food reserves from its cotyledon. Similarly, love is viewed through a pair of rose-tinted lenses when the first spark of the relationship is ignited, and is subsequently fuelled by the presence of overwhelming infatuation, allowing it to grow at a seemingly inexorable rate.

And just as plants form the essence of life, for all organisms on earth depend on it directly or indirectly, love is the most fundamental unit of life, for life without love is not worth living.