Forty - Two!!!!

The title is just a reference to The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy's famous quote: Forty - Two is the answer to the ultimate question of the life, the universe and everything.
There's not much relation with H2G2, but while reading a friend's blog I came upon such a question: Why can't life be simpler? And as usual my sleep went out the window and I remembered my lunch time today.
Unlike everyday or rather unlike most of the days when me and my colleagues eat in canteen, we today had gone to Pizza Hut. No occasion, nothing. Just because we felt like. And while sitting there I started strolling down my memory lane. How Pizza Hut was no less than DisneyLand when I was young. Even when I was in college!!!
I still remember a lot of my firsts. My first visit to McDonald's had been to meet a very special friend. My first visit to SubWay had been on a disastrous day when almost nothing went right. And my first visit to Pizza Hut was, here in Mumbai, after I had been on job for more than an year. But today it was nothing special. Pizza Hut is just another restaurant for me where I go and eat whenever I feel like. Pizza Hut, KFC, McD and all the similar chains hold no more special meaning for me. That's because I've become highly habitual of such places. So the joy I used to experience while going to McD in my college days is gone. Such places are no longer a rare commodity for me and so the pleasure I used to get while dining there is thinning.
Now coming back to the question in question(pun intended).... My friend, in her blog, asks... Why is it, that if you are married to someone, and you see the person you loved walking by, your heart flutters. And if I think in the same terms as I described above... that's because that person is a rare commodity.
My friend had also mentioned heart ache in her blog and I, ah yes!!! Me... I have countless things to say about that... But am keeping them for future because love for me is a very "alien" subject....