Originally posted by: tejaswiniwenham
whenever someone talks about dev being selfless im like 🤡
exactly which relationship has he been selfless with? to be honest, being a mindless puppet of your mother's does NOT make you a selfless son. a child and parents' relationship goes through phases of understanding- parents go from being your teacher and guide in your life to being your friend and philosopher. you go from being dependent to being equals and its a relationship based on being honest and able to share and discuss. dev is NEVER honest with his mother. he never wants to say or do anything that may be confrontational even though it will be good for her in the long run. and the oh i worked and got successful from a young age and didnt get to really live my childhood sob story is literally just the most pathetic thing ever. and ishwari's- oh i sacrificed so much bs was just death. i dont understand this concept of sacrifice in hindi serial...you cant 'sacrifice' what you dont have. ish was just dealt a bad hand after her hubs died. its not like she would be rolling in dough if she just abandoned her children. like seriously, india is FULL of those people who work through their childhood and most of them dont even have a billion rupee company to show for it. so the sob story was really trivializing the struggles of millions of people everywhere. whenever it would come up i would be like- good job dev, pat on the back. now can you just be grateful of where you are in life right now?and ish also hes not very good at sacrificing for his mother. his half-baked attempt at 'sacrficing' sona for ish was literally a laughter riot. you cant sacrifice conditionally- then thats not a bloody sacrifice. he literally was like a difficult child through that whole phase. like- oh ma im gonna break up with sona for your sake but im gonna drink and waste my life stalking her till you are forced to agree cos i'll be a total mess. thats not sacrificing thats forcing someone into a corner. and then he even told sona he would choose her over his mother (lies). none of that was being a good 'selfless' son. his struggle was quite normal in our society- if you work hard and become rich, your not just gonna be like f off to your fam. and he loves being dev dixit so i dont buy the whole i did it all for my family bs. so ya hes a good enough son but all these claims of glory by the dev pankhis and ish is just not true.hes definitely not a good brother. im sorry but being a good siblings entitles a LOT more than just buying them things and educating them and marrying them off. if he had any sense of how to be a good brother, neha would not be separated from ranveer. you cant buy happiness and a good brother would have been able to explain that to explain that to neha instead of trying to buy her husband and fanning his insecurities and neha's feelings of inadequacies. and the way he treats elena is simply abhorrent. whether she deserves bad treatment from her own or not is debatable but dev is def not one of those people whom shes hurt. so her treatment in the show is just wrong.now coming to a lover, i dont think you can love anyone if you are incapable of loving them equally if not more than yourself. its ok to fall out of love, you should love someone till you can and not a second longer. but that time should be the most selfless and honest period of your life. dev's love was not selfless, it involved the words me myself and i- dev ka daard, dev ki khushi, dev ka akelapan, dev ki ma, dev ka aadarsh, dev ki family, dev ka pyaar much more than sona. if he really loved sona, in my opinion he would have never married her or forced his mother to accept her. he wouldve either honestly asked her to wait and he will try to handle the mummy situation or he would have let her go. that is love. its about the other person's true peace and happiness even if it means hurting them in the short term.im not even going to discuss him as a husband or a son-in-law. it will legit give me hyper tension. and as a father- hes just as juvenile a dad as he is as a brother. im basing this off his parenting of golu. parenting is not about flirting your children out of trouble. its not about fun and games and a damn care attitude. dev knows what it takes to be successful. hes really proud of his new avatar but if the dev dixit of old- the geek master, suit wearing dev dixit didnt exist, this new avatar would not be able to afford existence. so what exactly is he teaching golu? be cool now and a fool later in life? ok. he literally doesnt understand how to raise children and again the dev dixit epidemic of me myself and i is still very persistent. dev's haq, dev's waris, dev's fixer upper. 😳 and also his erratic impulsive bi-polar love does not really equate to good parenting im afraid. two days ago golu was the love of his life and suddenly now hes 'alive' because of soha only? so does that make golu a tub of dalda? what? he wasnt good enough to bring dev 'back to life'? i acknowledge its hard to feel that for others' kids but then why the tall proclamation of golu being his waris then? and even regarding soha, her feelings toh are a bunch of expired bananas to dd, so how is he a selfless parent again?correct me if im wrong but in what role is dev selfless? i atleast havent seen him go the extra mile for anyone yet. let me know if you have, im very open to being wrong.