The hole in us

When you put someone ahead of yourself, you tend to feel you're doing it out of love. And when you do that, you give away a piece of you. A part that completes you. If that person returns the affection, the emotional equilibrium is maintained. If not, you're bound to be dismayed. Because you cared to love. Because you dared to be naked. You were selfless and mad at the same time. Not exactly a wise thing to do but something you end up doing due to absolute abandon. You take a chance with yourself, let alone the other person. Your soul stretches itself while your mind takes a flight. It's almost magical. The closest one can get to being oneself with respect to another. People think it's the pursuit of happiness. It's not. Pursuit of togetherness, perhaps. Sorrow is an important ingredient, you see? Much like that piece of yours that goes missing when you're in love. Poets call it heart. If it weren't for aesthetic reasons, it could have very well been liver or pancreas too. Anyway, you miss it before you get it back. Hopefully.

Is it?

• Is it weird to check out others' hands as they are fascinating and—unlike a face—way too underrated?
• Is it weird to want to wait a bit longer than usual?
• Is it weird to draw doodles that don't really make sense?
• Is it weird to bring your ear close to someone's chest and hear what their heartbeat is trying to say? 
• Is it weird to get so lost in somebody else's thoughts that you don't remember yourself anymore?
• Is it weird to lean in and then whisper nothing?
• Is it weird to know everything and yet feel clueless?
• Is it weird to teach your parents a thing or two about true love?
• Is it weird to believe that you'll be alright?
• Is it weird to envisage a future on the basis of your present?
• Is it weird to stand in the middle of the subway for no peculiar reason while the crowd passes you by?
• Is it weird to talk to yourself only to get caught?
• Is it weird to avoid a go at happiness?
• Is it weird to wake up alone after having dreams of togetherness?
• Is it weird to defeat hunger with hope?
• Is it weird to ACTUALLY understand the difference between knowledge and wisdom?
• Is it weird to invent a God when there's no dearth in the first place?
• Is it weird to tell a friend that you might never come back?
• Is it weird to run like Forrest Gump?
• Is it weird to be inert as well as passionate about someone?
• Is it weird to lick her armpits in your mind?
• Is it weird to not acknowledge when to talk and when to shut up?
• Is it weird to be quiet like an eagle or talkative like a sparrow?
• Is it weird to let cinema seep into your reality?
• Is it weird to be unsure of your ability to fail?
• Is it weird to ruin perfection by touching it again and again?
• Is it weird to be?
• Is it weird to hold her hands and cry in those palms?
• Is it weird to keep on writing without a point?