XOXO – The virtual love lingo

So, for the uninitiated, XOXO are the kisses and hugs. Yes, in the virtual world, like many other interesting and slightly weird emoticons, XOXO stands for kisses and hugs. X is kiss and O is a hug. The visual description of XO is the X is your lips intertwined in a kiss and O is your arms closed around in an embrace.

Interestingly, this XOXO is not a new internet phenomenon. This dates back to ancient times when people inscribed X on the letters to display their belief in Christianity and kiss the X to seal the envelope. Later, it was believed that Jewish started writing O instead of X. And much later, the O began representing an embrace, a hug.  

And as in the dotcom age, we are short of time as it is, with Twitter ruling the web with 140 characters. Where is the time to write and to read? So, for our own convenience, we have come up with abbreviations for all possible frequently used words. 

Sample some of them:

HBD – Happy Birthday

BRB – Be right back

TYVM – Thank you very much

BTW – By the way

There are more, many more. But you get the drift. 

Call me stupid but I always thought LOL was lots of love. Though I never used it, but when I got to know that it was laugh out loud, I never again used it. Yes, I do laugh out loud on a joke but I prefer using a :D instead of a LOL. Don’t ask me why! I have my own weaknesses!

So, ya coming back to XOXO, the kisses and hugs. In this world swamped by LOL and BTW, where is the time to express love? Where is the time to make someone feel special? Where is the time to make someone wait for you on the other side of the virtual world when you 5 mins back wrote BRB?

Seriously, there is no time. So, when you are chatting up with someone you love, be it your parents, siblings, friends or lover, sitting apart from each other, make them feel your love. Send them the warmth, the affection, the feelings and love. Yes, internet may have given us crude short forms like HBD, it has XOXO to spread the love!

To all my beautiful readers, I may not have said it earlier but felt it always nonetheless, here is my love to all you all…

What a girl wants!

From Society

• Treat her as equal.  Equal to the other half of the population, the man

From Family

• She wants you to not differentiate between her and her brother
• She wants to look after you, provide for you when you grow old, take you out on a trip and buy you a new car. Just as much as her brother wants to do all this for you
• She wants you not to bother so much for her marriage and definitely not the dowry. Because first, it is not right. And second, you made her independent and confident. That is more than she could ever ask from you
• She wants you to be there with her in her choices. She knows you may not agree to many of them, but she has confidence in herself. She wants you to have faith in her
• She wants you to ask her for anything that you may need for she is perfectly capable to take care of you

From Life-partner/Lover

• She wants you to respect her and her family and where she comes from. She is proud of her roots and she wants you to know her better
• She wants you to support her and be her strength when she is not feeling up for the challenges of life. She is emotionally stronger than you but there may be times when she wants you to be her anchor
• She wants you to remember that she is equally responsible for the investments and future planning
• She wants you to really understand her when she says she wants to make babies with you or she wants to take time to decide if she is really up for the responsibilities
• She wants you to sometimes offer to help her in the kitchen and other household chores. She most definitely wants you to know how to cook!
• She wants you to read books with her, listen to music on a lazy Sunday afternoon, take her out for a brunch on a Saturday, surprise her sometimes with something she really likes
• She secretly wants you to remember the birthdays, anniversaries. Atleast yours and people close to you. Even though she knows you may let her down in this one
• She wants you to know that she may really have a ‘headache’ some days
• She wants you to know that she likes to take charge in bed and would like to do lot of things with you, even though the whole act of making love may have just become a chore after a long day at work and even though it is mostly you dominating every move
• She wants to grow old and walk in the sunset with you

From Miscellaneous

• Neighbours – She wants you to really mind your own business and look into your own houses and sort your problems than focus on what time she comes back from work or who drops her home late night
• Roadside Romeos – She wants to sometime slap you really hard and kick you right in your balls for every pervert glance you throw at her and undress her with your glares every minute, be it walking down the road or in the bus or in the mall or where ever you are (which is everywhere!)