How many times has your heart skipped a beat every time you set eyes on your silver screen heart throb? How many times has he looked deep down into your eyes (from celluloid of course) and made you feel like his heart beats only for you? So was this love?

Is it love every time you go wobbly kneed over the amazingly cool hunk next door or your best guy pal who you sometimes feel you are in love with? Is it love when there are butterflies in your stomach at the mere mention of him? Probably not, but then yet again, this may just be it But how do you know?

Though there are no water tight compartments that define love and non-love. There are no parameters that hold true for love and fall by the wayside when infatuation steps in. Strange are the ways of the heart and stranger still our interpretations of them.

While most infatuation seems like love at the start, slowly as the chaff starts leaving the grain and things become lucid.

So what are the signs of love?

• True love does not demand changes in you. It accepts you for what you are and what you stand for.

• True love goads you on in your enterprise and helps you become a better person.

• True love does not question why, but merely follows.

• True love does not take; instead it gives a part of itself to the relation and you.

• True love envelopes you, it finds you; you need not search for it.

• Finally, true love allows you to evolve through your relationship; it helps you to grow along with the other person. It sets you free…

Have you experienced true love; if so how do you know it’s true love? Share your thoughts