Originally posted by: sea_nyx
Damn, what a mess! I feel guilty for my earlier comments asking you to turn up the heat and add Angie and Ankit into the mix. All of them have become so dear to me and the truth is someone is going to end up getting hurt and nothing can prevent that. Sometimes even with the best of intensions you end up hurting people and that's simply tragic.
Angie simply stole my breath away in this part. Truly I feel like echoing a fellow reader and hope that she finds her own special someone soon. And I never expected Ankit to get so deeply involved. Another equally unavoidable, potentially tragic situation?all in all, a complete mess.
But while I freely admit it's nasty of me I have to say I'm happy to see Armaan finally fallen from his Olympian heights to join the rest of us lowly mortals. After all, No one, not even armaan malik is perfect and in fact it's that mixture of the perfect and the imperfect that binds us in a relationship.
Speaking of relationships, this is totally unrelated but Sam how can you be sure whether you know a person or not? How long does it take? And how do you know he's the right one for you?
But yeah, writing romance is horrible, I really admire people who can produce it effortlessly. My own proposal (er, Armaan's that is) had me sweating blood, so much so that now I'm cursing myself for making it a two-couple ff, which means twice the romance requirements. I end up feeling so self-conscious, and on top of it, my characters refuse to do what I want. Btw, thanx for the lovely comment, have answered it, along with a new but short part.
Hi Aarti! Well you asked for it! Lol! But what's life without a little spice, though I wish people would not end up getting hurt because of that but believe me in a Bschool, its inevitable primarily on account of the sex ratio being highly skewed?there typically are much lesser number of women than men, heartbreaks and crossed wires are pretty much the norm!
Yup, Anjali's admirable in this part its tough to accept to yourself that you are wrong and even tougher to atone for it in public. But to me that is something that needs to be done.....if you can loose your temper in public, then why should the atonement be private, but this is easier said than done and takes a lot of balls!
Part of the reason for the track was to show that Armaan is not perfect....none of us are.....but we still fall in love with people inspite of their failings.....and as I keep saying, both Anjali and Armaan are equally guilty of the same crime, allowing the rumours to hold sway, for personal selfish reasons. Armaan cos it suited him to keep unwarranted attention at bay and Anjali cos it dovetailed into what she really desired...she allowed it to exist because she hoped somewhere, somehow it would translate into reality.....not sure if one is more noble or acceptable than the other but I guess one tends to be a lot more sympathetic with her cos, one she is a woman and second she's the one suffering from unrequited love!
As to Armaan and her exchange, I guess he needed to be more direct than oblique. But in my experience guys find it very difficult to be cut and dried with people about whom they care, unless she happens to be the wife! 😆
But to answer the most interesting part of your comment, there is really no cut and dried answer but in my humble opinion, you never know for sure that a someone is Mr. Right, Its like Ridhima said, there are no guarantees in love, you've got to take the risk! Sometimes, it does not take too long for the sparks to ignite, but you do need to give a relationship time to know whether you think it would last.....Especially with men, I think most of the fun is in the chase! Ask me, I took ages, I just think my man must have been suffering from temporary insanity, to have stuck around for so long! But I was lucky, not all men are insane!
If the guy still wants to stick around, and wants to be there when you are your grungy best, he's your man... remember, once you share a bed (figuratively and literally) , he doesn't see you at your prettiest best all the time, be it physically, emotionally or conversationally.....but if you share common interests, are good friends and can talk to each other, there's a good chance that you will be together long after the black is replaced by grey and the passion ebbs!
As to knowing the person, don't even try to know all, you need to leave some for the excitement of discovery thereafter! But on a serious note, you need to know enough to know if he is a good human being, cos finally that's all that really matters! I cant claim to be an expert on relationships, but have been through some myself and have seen many more around me.....and the one thing that I can definitely say with authority is that looks alone are the worst barometer! Once you have been together with someone for a while, you begin to appreciate many things which are a far cry from what attracted you in the first place.....sensitivity, a sense of human, basic goodness, ability to connect....but for all of it you've got to take a risk!
On that note shall end this monologue! Shall quickly go read the next part of Convininet Marriage, am sure it must be as good! I can empathise with the difficulty in writing romantic parts bit!
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