Love in a man’s life is indispensable. To exclaim this in the words of Max Muller: just how a flower cannot blossom without sunshine, a man cannot live without love. However distressing love’s consequences and imminent conclusion may be, to have loved, suffered and endured is to have lived life to its truest and fullest sense. A life without love is like a flower without petals, a perfume without fragrance, a rainbow without colors. So when Sir Alfred Lord Tennyson writes -- Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all, he is correct. This assertion has best been validated in popular literature, ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ being a good example.

Writer John Green’s global phenomenon ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ follows the poignant story of a young teenage girl named Hazel Grace who has been diagnosed with terminal Stage IV thyroid cancer which has spread to hers lungs. She lives a near-hopeless life idling away her hours waiting to die. But her forlorn life is about to change when one day, while reluctantly attending a support group to appease her much-loved parents, she meets Augustus Walters, a charming and confident teenage boy who is in remission from a rare form of osteosarcoma, a bone cancer, after a leg amputation. There is a spark between them and they instantly fall in love with each other.

Augustus arranges for a Dutch themed picnic where he announces his plans to take Hazel to Amsterdam where she could meet her dearly esteemed author of The Imperial Affliction, a book which recounts the story of a teenager girl battling cancer, a story cherished by Hazel. She is thrilled about going to Amsterdam but when Augustus touches her face to kiss her she, for some reason, feels reluctant. She then realizes that felt hesitant because she loves him so much that she is afraid she will hurt him when she dies. She compares herself to a grenade. But