Apologies if you have read this post before. as I have posted it with other titles.
But I am posting it with a new title as part of an experiment.
For those who haven't please do read it.
And everyone please put in your comments, I would be most interested to know what you think.
A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals kindly"
In everyone's lives comes at least one dark night of the soul, when there is darkness everywhere and all one can see is one's own self and nothing else. Because looking at oneself is the only way one can come out of the darkness and to see the light beyond and learn to live one's life and to deal with what life gives us. And yesterday it was ASR's dark night of the soul, for that is where he was having been brought there as a result of a combination of his own unthinking actions and the circumstances which brought in this most hideous of creatures, Shyam into his life. And now he is on a path of vengeance, his first victim is to be the person who could and will hopefully be his only means to redemption.
When the war is done (not won, for there are no winners in this war, only battle scared survivors) and truth (and what that is or whose it is, is a whole different question) prevails, like Draupadi, I sincerely hope KKG asks ASR '
"whom do you lose first, yourself or me?"
For ASR having lost Arnav has lost his right over her anymore. How can he claim she is his to do what he pleases? This marriage that he is about to make her enter having been goaded into it by Shyam's action, like Yudhishtir, having been goaded by Shakuni to become blind in his desire to win the game of dice, will only lead them to wilderness.
And I hope when ASR faces this question, he is able to look into himself, see the answer that was always written in his soul, but he chose not to see, and tell her he had no right.
For all the men who so claimed to love KKG, none really did. She has been betrayed by everyone just as Draupadi was. But she is a strong woman who has always known that love is the cornerstone on which life depends, and that she will give and heal ASR.
So this is not KKG's agnipariksha as others have said- this is her vastrapharan in both a metaphorical and physical sense.
But then, I deceive myself- this is a romance (what I call a morance!!) on Indian TV and the only truth that prevails in this world is that of money and TRPs. And the only plot that will get them that is a set of lovers who are brought just close to each other and yet just separate enough for the viewers to believe in the promise of the happy ending after enough rounds of meetings and partings.
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