True love?

As I sit down to write this post, in the middle of the night, I wonder if true love really exists. We have read it novels, seen it in movies but have never experienced it. For me, love is a relation I have with my parents. Even though I was given this relation from the very beginning, without a choice, I accepted it. That, for me now, is true love. An experience, which many kids don't get to have. I will always be grateful to God for that, for letting me rejoice in that experience.
What I sometimes feel is the bondage of love to our life. Life is nothing without love, just like love is nothing without life. Sometimes, being a teen I have realized, we do feel heartbroken. Heartbroken that we are not accepted, that we are different, that we get the feeling like we don't belong. But the truth is, if we just open our eyes, out to the world, we will know how much we are accepted and loved. How much everyone cares for us and how good life is.
As most of the people will think that when I say 'true love' I am directing my thoughts to a "girl/boy relationship" .It is not that. I am directing my thought to a relationship in general. A relation between parents and their child, one between two best friends, something between a husband and a wife. Sometimes, all we need to do is accept. Once we accept, we do feel accepted as well.
When we expect something, then we keep a bar, something like a judgement bar. So, when something is not upto our expectations, we question our own judgement. If we don't expect, then there is nothing that will be felt unrewarded. Love is just like a reward. Giving love is unconditional, but as soon as we start having expectations, conditions are put. These conditions are like the acid that corrodes the metal, where metal is the relationship. Take this for example, when a baby is born, there is unconditional love between the mother and the child. The mother is just giving, giving the child love. At that stage, the child doesn't understand love but still feels it. Sometimes shows it by pooping all over his mama's lap. But, in all this, the mother never expects that love back.
That is what it is. Accept and you will feel accepted. True love is there, out there, in front of you. For some, true love stands in music, for some in literature and for millions of others in another person. But love, sure exists.
So, when we give and don't expect, we might just get surprised with what we get!