Love is like a Hill

I love hills a lot...but never thought I could equate being in and out of love with climbing up and down a hill.

When you meet somebody exciting and strike up a relationship, there is sizzling attraction, everything going right and its like MAAN, WOW!! You know, its like climbing up a hill or even a smallish knoll. In giant strides you cross it as if it were a small hurdle and reach to the top. You go up so quickly that you never realise the great heights you have covered. Everything looks so beautiful from there..aha, what a wonderful vista... you begin to see life in a new light. You jump and prance about and your heart jumps and prances about with you. You love the hill even more for what it has brought to your life.

I pray to God you stay there forever.

But most times, we are not lucky. Sometimes it ends. It may end suddenly and you see yourself reeling over the edge.

Or the end may even stretch out in a painfully long manner, when you find suddenly even more challenges to cross. You know, at such times one feels that it is the challenges of relationship that more efforts are required to reach the top. Probably it is a better view from higher up and you struggle more. But the reality is the challenges that you cross are not taking you uphill, but rather u r goin downhill.

And thats the truth...falling in love is like climbing a small hill, but getting out of it is trudging down like a tall mountain. Reminds me of an English film title, so apt "An Englishman who went up a hill and came down a mountain". It has such a romantic poster of Hugh Grant holding the heroine in his arms with the mountain as the backdrop. But I digress, as usual.

So getting out of a relationship is like coming down a mountain.....the closer the relationship, the longer the journey downhill and if it was love,then may God save you. The irritating part is that you have to put so much effort and that too just to come downhill (and thats where this analogy differs from climbing up and down of an actual hill)...and every moment you are aware of the effort you are putting in, which makes it all the more painful. And you cannot stop yourself from frequently looking back up, imagining how it was up above there, and coming to terms with the disbelief that it has all ended.

I do hope, that if ever any of you has to come downhill, that your journey does end so that you can gather your energies for the next hill....for life doesn't stop and life has to move on and once you have been at the top, its like an addiction and you want to be up there...be it this hill or that!!

While going uphill, one loves a lot. While coming downhill, one learns a lot.....thats the reality, sweet or bitter ...you decide