As The Tide Turns - a MG SS - part 4, pg 12, 26/2 - Page 9

Originally posted by: dumas

she left the both of them knowing she never loved dev maan was the one she always loved i don't understand her decision she loves maan and maan loves her but she left him for a guilt that she thinks she did ( help me understand ) thanks for the pm so she is punishing her self and maan for this guilt

Originally posted by: scorpiodreams

Myself being a maaneet fan, Never expected it to end this way. geet is right that she could not keep up the promise made to herself and we cannot be at peace once we commit something against our moral/belief. It is a good meaningful ending(if with different character names)but as i said, i cannot agree to an ending where maaneet are not together.

Originally posted by: angeesh

Reading that gave me goosebumps...Wow

Glad that you kept her character strong...she could have walked into Maan's arms and been with the one she loved passionately, but that would have been selfish.

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

Tennyson In Memoriam:27, 1850

Ange

Originally posted by: had2bu

I have been holding off on the debate about right and wrong in a marraige only to realise that the story was ending and although my point is unpopular I am still going to make it...

Too liberal perhaps but vows stop being meaningful to me when the people taking them stop meaning much to each other.

If Dev had been such an exemplary husband he would have recognized some of what she was going through.. I am not deflecting here but wouldn't he have known or shouldn't he have known.

If Maan was just any human being, how could falling in love with a person be sin. If love was not a tidal wave of passion and desire for a human being how would you know that it is love. Would he have been forgiven if he met her before Dev by a few days or minutes? If he felt that flare of love before Dev met her and then he lost her. It's hard to put a timeline on when where or how a person moves you to those depths. It is harder still to respect the bounds that society places on a person. Love cannot be tied down or bow to rules. It just is.

What of Geet? Does a woman stop feeling attraction or being attractive to others just because of a ring or a string? I remember my Mom advicing me when I was growing up that be careful who you smile at and meet eyes with. It may be casual for you but not for the other person. Perhaps Geet should have got such advice.

My heart breaks for all of them here. Losing on love is in all their fates now. Too bad the tide turned bad...

Beautiful story, very well written Fozia. To touch a few hearts and minds with your words, isn't that all a writer wants...

👏

Originally posted by: yappingduck

its difficult not to cry after reading the last chap...the letters to dev and maan were so beautifully penned down, that i couldnt help getting tearyeyed for a moment...heartbreakingly beautiful👏

Originally posted by: walkintomylifex

I think in all of the comments I've replied to I've said 'I agree' but it is genuinely because I do agree! And the same with your overall opinion - perhaps they are all to blame. Dev for not realising his wife's turmoil, despite his never ending love for her. Geet for giving into tempation and Maan for playing with a forbidden fire - and ultimately, allowing himself to burn.

But you do raise some very valid points - is Maan's love for her really a sin? You and Queen Z here clash like titans because she feels it is - his desire and pursuing was taken with complete lack of consideration for anyone but himself (and I agree)

But then the part I made bold where you state love is free from boundaries and rules, I can't bring myself to argue with. You're absolutely right, and that's what Geet realises - her love for Maan broke the boundaries and rules of her marriage with Dev and set her free, and that's what love is at the end of the day. She loved Dev because she felt it was her duty to do so as his wife, and it's that betrayed duty that she feels guilt upon. I can't say it was ever true love for Geet towards her husband, because then she wouldn't feel as liberated as she did sat on that train, daring herself to speak his name for one last time.

I agree, a woman's honour is in a woman's own hands. It probably was up to her to keep her distance and not get carried away, but then she can't control what a man other than her husband may think and feel about her...

The tide did turn bad and turbulent... at first, I think. Here is where I disagree, I think this is best for all of them. As Taani partner said in RNBDJ, to be in love is the most painful feeling in the world and nothing is more saddening than love. I think the three of them encompass that here but I also think it breaks them free from the knot they were entangled in. If Maan and Geet were to live a life together, there would always be the cloud of betrayal they did to Dev hanging over them. She would always be Dev's ex wife first, then Maan's lover. I don't think Geet especially could have lived with that.

Thank you so much Avi, you don't know how much that means to me. It is an absolute honour to evoke emotions and feelings as a writer, nothing else beats it for me 🤗

Originally posted by: had2bu

The only thing that I did not like about Taani partner. Totally disagree with that line with vehemence. If love for a child or a flower or a piece of music evoke so much happiness and joy in our souls then how could love for another person be sad. If she had said losing love, I would agree. There is nothing sadder than losing love and so however much MG are wrong in the eyes of the world I feel sad that they lost this greatest gift of God.

I was keeping myself so far from this debate because I always loose on this point but I have seen people like this. People who are tied to others due to their parents or their kundalis or their family prestige and there is no love lost among the partners. To me this is the worse a marraige can be. In fact it is a mockery of love and marraige. To me Dev could not have loved her if he did not sense what was wrong with her. It was not one instance but over two years. Geet would never have allowed Maan if she was in love with Dev. No women in love would allow it. Society has its purposes and rules but in the matter of one's heart it is between the partners and I am sorry that I don't see love here.

So I stand by my point and willing to take all the jootis my way.

You should be very proud of this piece Fozia.

I remember in the Reel days we used to have an intense battle on a similar issue when Pawan was in love with Meera who was Maan's girlfriend. So many were on Pawan's side. I was perhaps the lone battler for Meera only because she showed that she did not want Pawan's attentions. You brought those memories back...

🤗