Little Manhattan - Love in the Time of 11 year olds

Recently i watched this movie - "Little Manhattan", its about two 11 year old kids falling in love. The whole idea sounded so charming and romantic. The movie definetly lived up to its promise. It was so refreshing to watch someone actually fall in love.

But more importantly it brought back memories of my own adolescent feelings of attraction towards the opposite sex. When Hrithik sings with Priyanka Chopra, or when Harry met Sally, it just didnt strike a note with me. But when a kid innocently and almost unknowingly fell in love with his classmate, it made my day.

Somehow a contrived plot or a song and dance sequence doesnt sound like love to me anymore. What is love for that matter. But wait, even Woody Allen failed to describe it. I definetly dont know what love is. But I know how it feels like in love.

Love actually makes things beautiful, so beautiful. The most mundane of things and the most important of things are rendered beautiful and meaningless. Its almost a feeling of levitation. A person in love feels like Jimmy Stewart telling Mary that he would pull down the moon for her. Maybe you are so much in love that you wouldnt mind actually trying to pull the moon down.

But maybe Im wrong. We live in an increasingly cynical world and for a nation which lives in constant denial of love between opposite sexes, my word are those of a fool. I can only hope that is not true.