The beauty of human life is such that we are able to cope up and start afresh post setbacks MOST of the times. That attribute is innately necessary for a successful person in the society. But what we forget is the value of the pain we endure during those moments of grief.
Lets for a moment think of feelings as investments, they grow with increased interaction with the other person, only to turn to zilch, once the mirage vanishes or the dream ends. To objectify now, isn't it a great deal to lose? The accused is guilty if not for killing a person, then certainly a part of him/her. That part that grew up with you, that part that shared his/her dreams with you, that part that dared to dream with you, the heart that pumped extra strong when you were in sight, the mind that ensured fidelity amidst distractions, the body that met the calls and demands of the partner, the conscience that felt most responsible to rule in your favour, when moments of making choices appeared.
Some of the best writers have given such brilliant quotes on loosing in love/relationships. Over the times the pain of separation has achieved a different romanticism in itself. So many verses dedicated to the very feeling of sadness. Maybe we realise that we are now alone, and with this heady feeling of sadness thereby deciding either to console and pamper the self, or inflicting more damage upon it as an act of turning into one's own nemesis. Choices really, the value base of our life !! I'll leave you with two contradictory quotes below:
"Better never to have met you in my dreams, than to wake and reach for the hands that are not there." - Otomo No Yakamochi
"It's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all" - Lord Alfred Tennyson
This is a complicated thing to talk about. Love is such a two edged sword. It makes and mars you all at the same time. Its this whirlwind journey that takes over your life and you're never the same again.
ReplyDeleteI see so much heartache around, yet its hard to not tell them that they made a mistakes, mistakes happen, and that they should still always keep their souls open for love.
Love. There is nothing like it. Nothing.
I loved the last line..
ReplyDeleteThanks for the thoughts !!
Loved your post.
ReplyDeleteTruly.
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hey thanks Blue Periwinkle !! do visit more often!!
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ReplyDeleteAn idea or more than a grasp of thought,that wouldn't come across unless one reads through the lines,unless reminded.
"The law of the land punishes only crimes which can be physically verified. What about the lashes on the souls, the daggers in the hearts, the strangling of emotions and the treachery in relations ??" and then the clauses that follow just as building up the case-here particularly the literature becomes self-imbibing for if a guilty person is reading this,he/she would revert back or atleast think of.
And an open ending,an oxymoronic idiom pair is more than enough to push the reader for debate.
Great write,i wish you wrote more on genres i love to read.
Please Soum Bhai,consider so.
This genre you write on,you write really srong at a very welcome vocab structure and swift sentence-para flow.
Cheers!!
Thanks Pru, will write more on this and that.. and the idioms were oxymoronic in the truest sense. wasnt inviting a debate, but more so wanted to show, even great minds find themselves confused in matters of the heart !!
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