Why do they say fall in love and not rise in love? It sounds so ominous..

"fall in love" is an idiomatic usage ;Isn't it Vandana? So you cannot take it literally and talk about 'rising in love' or’ falling' in love unless you are just trying to jest with it. If we are just going to joke about it then you can have many interpretations saying that 1] 'love' is likely bring a lot of hurt and complication and so it can be likened to 'falling ' in love .A person who falls is likely to sustain physical injury .Here there is likely to be some emotional injury. 2 A person who falls , sometimes never rises Similarly , a person who 'falls' in love is never likely to rise again. His life is doomed. 3A person who ‘falls’ can manage to rise slowly and can get back to normal again. It can happen in love too. Whatever be the quixotic interpretation it only would stem from the underlying theory that ‘the course of love never did run smooth’. So, to conclude , do not take an idiomatic usage literally. There are different kinds of love and we can only understand the meaning form the context.” Falling ‘in love does not refer to affection shown to parents or children .However, at times we do exaggerate and say “I just fell in love with the flower vase when I saw it” I agree with your interpretation of 'love' though sometimes we may not spend most of our waking moments thinking of another person.But it would be true in a broader sense .

I wouldn't know about that. I guess it's a slang. Falling in love might mean that your insides are like falling from where they are. You feel that they're tingling inside you like they're falling apart, just a wild guess.

Dear Vandanaji I have had a similar thought and I felt it was always wise to take love as it comes, as it makes me do, as it makes me feel, as it makes me live I have always believed in love to be a power - to me, it has given me direction, desire, aim, objective, a sense of safety, sense of security, a feeling of being pampered... Gosh! the list seems endless and no where I can see that I fail or fall or even have the need to. It is like what you say - "About walking and thoughts that are really so positive, healthy and yes so very desirable and needed" For the headline - "Fall In Love" - Someone failed to understand love, its power and sulked - I fell And as we normally follow the wrong things, this became a statement and now it seems it is the latest trend... But I never agree with this as I always feel, Love is something that will always show you the path to success, happiness and all the good things in life. Loved this one

Hi Vandana, Thats a good thought. I would go with two, fall in love first and then rise in love and thats how life goes more lovely. You made to think about it, creative thinker you are.!!

HI vandy, I would only assume as I really have not given it much thought, that fall in love is like an action or affect. See fall down is an action and affect, therefor, falling in love is an action and affect. Rise would mean continual growth of the love, is how I see it. When one falls on the grown one must rise up to attend the pain and wound right, so when one falls in love one has to rise up and continue to flourish the love.

To the bachelor who is getting married we say 'welcome to the ditch' and to the person who dares to love we say he/she is falling in love, obviously.

Hi vandana, I think fell in love and love a child is not the same thing. 'Fell in love' occurs between a man and a woman. To love a child is affection. Parents love for their children is also affection. Similarly we love our mother and father. Love is a feeling. It differs from person to person. When a man and woman fell in love each other then we can say they have relationship of both body and mind. In this love there is a biological touch.

you are so funny, V. your question is sensible but somehow it amuses me. fall in love is an idiom that simply tells to love somebody or be enamored with somebody. i have now realized that there idioms that could be as funny.

It does sound ominous! Maybe love is really somewhere below that people have to really fall to get to that level of being "in love". And maybe that's why when people get out of relationships, they learn to 'pick themselves up'. To get up to the level where 'right things or wise things' dwell.

Ah, still pondering with English... To love is everything... it can make you do the good things and it can make you do the wrong things, too.

May be directly falling is good instead of falling after rising.... Just a joke. I don't think love will make you do wrong or foolish things. (unless it is one sided (not in all cases)) It is a good thing which makes things better then before.

What can I say? I stumble upon awkward things in language frequently. But, I agree with you. It has a negative ring to it :)