What’s love without madness?

I thought for long after getting instigated by Friedrich Nietzsche’s moving line where he says “There is always some madness in love” to think for it myself. I might as well write something about it and think along the way. Well, is this so difficult to answer? No but still I will dedicate a blog to it.

In all the three phases of love as I see it Courtship, Prosper & Decay, there is an element of madness written all over it. For those who don’t quite agree with my classification of phases, I am sorry! When a boy sees the girl for the first time in his life, he makes up his mind to pursue her till she gives her assent amicably. So he goes about waiting on her at the scheduled time of the day and wittingly finds her in the city’s markets or her well-known visiting places. He would then write her a letter (excuse my incongruous letter), hoping for a reply or a positive shift in her attitude. You may say there is some method in his madness nevertheless he gets welcomed into the world of mad. The only silver lining in the cloud being her delinquent yes is enough for the boy to swim deeper in the sea of madness.

Together they see heaven on earth, comforted by the sight of each other they walk hand in hand swinging amorously at the song beating in their hearts. There is mad whirl of pleasure in seeing each other every day, eating together and talking for endless durations. The madness in boy is kept in check by the arrival of the girl in his life but this apparent loss is compensated by increased madness coefficient in the girl. There is no madness like love and there is no love like the prosper love. And just when you thought they lived happily ever after, enters God with his balance sheet of each person’s stint at earth, reminds that the time is right for a change in fortunes. Madly enough did they build it together something that gets destroyed by the act of God in a strong message of vengeance for garnering too much happiness in too little a lifetime.

This phase is characterized by madness of the highest degree. One loses interest in the world around him and is yet to come to terms with the new realities of life. While it aches to live such a life one is unwilling to take any extreme step as sudden bouts of maturity attacks are a common phenomenon preventing any end to this tale of misery, skullduggery and madness inflicted by a supernatural act. With age also comes greater endurance to live through all of this despite all the madness putting on a pretentious face masked with fake smiles & hollow laughters. Anything but a failure, they go on to live and perform all the murky duties of a man. Now the question arises why don’t they look for happiness which is by the corner at the doorsteps and blah blah blah....

Does it still perplex you? Remember Cheap Happiness or Noble Suffering?