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I have read quite a few fictions on the forum and some of them have been amazingly poignant where either Maan or Geet have died... but trust me, never ever did I have tears in my eyes... it was the first time ever and until the very end I had hoped that Maan and Geet would survive even though you had unfolded that letter right at the onset of this story...
I think the effect was stronger because I happened to read this story in full after you had completed the last part...
It was amazingly awesome but very painful. Maan's pain in the knowledge that Geet had loved him all along and Geet's helplessness due to societal bindings was so heart wrenching... every turn of your life you are shown the mirror of "what could have been but isnt" and you have to smilingly accept it... you see that one person who brightens your day as well the darkest of night and yet know that light is borrowed, that you cant call it your own.. where you dont have the right to the simplest things you thought you owned.
Love has strange ways of flashing itself when you least expect it, so was the case with Maan ... it was the rudest shock he could have got to realize his love... a drunken moment and a few months of insanity were finally culminated with the phonecall from his mother about Geet's impending marriage.
The way Maan expressed his love to her on her wedding made me so hopeful and yet it tuned out as wrong, what is it that the society binds in us.. I dont like the fact that we spoil 3 lives to begin with just to see a seeming happy state of mind for a certain someone... I wonder would the Nani of Geet have been happy to know that she actually made her very own grand-daughter live the life of "half-attained" happiness.. where her grand-daughter had the happy knowledge of her love to Maan being reciprocated yet know that she was now to share every sense of togetherness she had hoped with Maan with another man... and Maan finally confessed his unsaid feelings on his wedding day..could it have been more ironical than that it took 2 mis-matched marriages and an ocean of pain,pining and helpnessless to achieve what could have been exchanged between the two much much earlier and in a much happy environment... the fear of rejection at times lead us to a situation where we are left with what ifs... why hadnt Geet voiced her feeling before Maan left for his gap year.. why did it take Maan so long until his mom's phone call to realize his love...why was it so impossible for Geet and Maan to be able to tell their parents about their feelings for each other before they both destroyed 6 lives - their own, Raj's, Priya's and of their kids too... I know Priya and Raj were loved by their spouse in a different way .. yet to attain that soul-touching love in one's marriage is everyone's dream and they never got to it... and the kids..they did suffer in a way I would say... if not Meera then Girish definitely, yes!!
Anyway, your story is just perfect yet not!! for I soo much wanted a happy ending for our Maan & Geet...nevertheless, a writer knows his/her story like an expectant mother would know her baby's movements within her...much better than anyone else in the world...thankyou for letting us have a glimpse into that world... where creation is supreme yet thoughts adorn the creation's final form!
Hope you write many such touching stories...just a small request- make your Geet and Maan together and dont let them die.. there is too much sadness and negativity around... these stories are more often than not to make us all believe in "happily ever after"s!! :-)
I think the effect was stronger because I happened to read this story in full after you had completed the last part...
It was amazingly awesome but very painful. Maan's pain in the knowledge that Geet had loved him all along and Geet's helplessness due to societal bindings was so heart wrenching... every turn of your life you are shown the mirror of "what could have been but isnt" and you have to smilingly accept it... you see that one person who brightens your day as well the darkest of night and yet know that light is borrowed, that you cant call it your own.. where you dont have the right to the simplest things you thought you owned.
Love has strange ways of flashing itself when you least expect it, so was the case with Maan ... it was the rudest shock he could have got to realize his love... a drunken moment and a few months of insanity were finally culminated with the phonecall from his mother about Geet's impending marriage.
The way Maan expressed his love to her on her wedding made me so hopeful and yet it tuned out as wrong, what is it that the society binds in us.. I dont like the fact that we spoil 3 lives to begin with just to see a seeming happy state of mind for a certain someone... I wonder would the Nani of Geet have been happy to know that she actually made her very own grand-daughter live the life of "half-attained" happiness.. where her grand-daughter had the happy knowledge of her love to Maan being reciprocated yet know that she was now to share every sense of togetherness she had hoped with Maan with another man... and Maan finally confessed his unsaid feelings on his wedding day..could it have been more ironical than that it took 2 mis-matched marriages and an ocean of pain,pining and helpnessless to achieve what could have been exchanged between the two much much earlier and in a much happy environment... the fear of rejection at times lead us to a situation where we are left with what ifs... why hadnt Geet voiced her feeling before Maan left for his gap year.. why did it take Maan so long until his mom's phone call to realize his love...why was it so impossible for Geet and Maan to be able to tell their parents about their feelings for each other before they both destroyed 6 lives - their own, Raj's, Priya's and of their kids too... I know Priya and Raj were loved by their spouse in a different way .. yet to attain that soul-touching love in one's marriage is everyone's dream and they never got to it... and the kids..they did suffer in a way I would say... if not Meera then Girish definitely, yes!!
Anyway, your story is just perfect yet not!! for I soo much wanted a happy ending for our Maan & Geet...nevertheless, a writer knows his/her story like an expectant mother would know her baby's movements within her...much better than anyone else in the world...thankyou for letting us have a glimpse into that world... where creation is supreme yet thoughts adorn the creation's final form!
Hope you write many such touching stories...just a small request- make your Geet and Maan together and dont let them die.. there is too much sadness and negativity around... these stories are more often than not to make us all believe in "happily ever after"s!! :-)
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