Love beyond age

Love is blind.

Thats what they said, and so it was proven in Germany on the dawn of New Year.

A six-year-old German boy has fallen head over heels in love with seven-year-old Anna-Lena, and she recuperated his love. They were so in love that they decided to get married. But it is winter in Europe and everybody were clad in their sweaters with zero temperatures being the order of the day almost everywhere in the region, and there is no need to mention the fact that the conditions in England, Scotland and Wales are freezing the people in their houses. Its not wedding season either, but Mika and Anna-Lena weren't prepared to wait for a summer smooch and exchange of rings.

So they read in their syllabus and from what their knowledge beholds, that Africa is the Land of the Sun. They are not aware of the blood diamonds or the poverty or what the world thinks of that region, they wanted a wedding under the sun and they decided for it. So they packed a pair of sunglasses, wore swimming armbands, loads of summer clothes, and even a pink Lilo and walked one kilometer (!) to the nearest train station at their home. Well, a marriage, like anything else that this world requires, needs 'proof'. So they decided that they needed a witness. So along came Anna-Bell, Anna-Lena's 5-year-old sister. A kilometer's walk and they reached the train station, and boarded a train to Hanover. And at Hanover, the three of them decided to take a train to the Hanover airport. Well, just like security personnel would, the one at the Hanover train station was perplexed to see three toddlers standing and waiting for the train to the airport without the supervision of any elderly person. So he informed the local police and they came soon enough to 'arrest' the three 'culprits'.

"We wanted to marry so just we thought, 'lets go there' ",  that is what Anna-Lena had to say. Mika said they just wanted to have a 'stroll under the sun'. Hows that for a New Year story?

How many of us are brave enough to even go to Africa after all the perception that the world has of it? For them, it is just a land where the sun rises, and just like how they said, 'the world is your home'. How many of us would walk one kilometers with continuous smiles and no sigh at all when we are so accustomed in this mobile world? They walked, and all they had in their mind in that time is the purest, most unpolluted feeling in the world- Love. They did not know what sex yet or anything much about it. All they wanted to be is married and be together.

There's a bloody war (oops, sorry, a massacre actually) in Gaza.

India is recovering from random terrorist shooting rampage in Mumbai.

An Iraqi journalist is in the jail for throwing a 'shoe' at Bush.

There is civil war in Africa.

But amidst all that, this.

My question is- which story is ridiculous or illogical?

I'd choose Mika and Anna's love story over the rest anyday, anytime. Because that is what Africa actually is and it was created as, a land where the sun rises and stays there. And thats how God has created the world, that the whole world is our home and we should be able to explore the world without any fear what-so-ever. And before we human beings with our incredible greed and desire for a 'system' complicated everything, even up to relationships, that is what we all should look at-pure love. 

Do you believe in love? I do. Maybe their story will make you believe after even if you don't.

Just think of it.

Who said it was bloody New Year?

Life is Beautiful.

"NO REASON IS NEEDED TO LOVE. ONE IS LOVED BECAUSE ONE IS LOVED."- PAULO COELHO, BRAZILIAN AUTHOR.