Originally posted by: crusty
You have to bear with me too... 😆
I get that Teenager-in-love Mahir got unlocked and it's an emotion that threatens to subsume everything of him. He fought to keep it under control, but he just can't do it anymore and he is willfully letting the emotion control him to the extent that small turbulence in it would send him to pieces. But how can it change his core personality? We all know, we are born or raised into certain qualities which no matter what does not change. They come out in the form of our involuntary reactions or response to a sudden development. Mahir is practical, observant, stubborn, hasty but fair and self-preservative.
Infact, he is highly self-preservative(emotionally). He has time and again mentioned he doesn't play with emotions nor he lets anyone play with his. He even told Bela, " I've kept my heart at your feet, not my self-respect". See, there were logical boundaries he drew, even in love. That's what Mahir always was, practical, in any situation!!!
Just last week he was saying,
" I will not invade your privacy, but I'll keep an eye on you, just to be sure you are safe."
^He respects everyone's privacy and knows the importance to draw lines even in his closest bonds!!!
Even with Bela when he knew he was in love with her, he was ready to set her free because that's what he assumed she wanted.He loved her, respected her, gave her space. He respected himself(love him for that!), been fair towards his own emotions and played fair and square.
He is madly, completely in love with her but even then he has put his " Main sab theek kar doonga" and " I'll handle it" on back-burner because he trusted Bela can handle it, if she wants to handle it, as she said so. That's quite accommodating and understanding on his part, to control his default settings to 'handle' everything!
This has gone for a serious flip once Bela made her feelings evident.
How can this guy simply vanish, so suddenly?
His behavior, right now, is it transient? Or a dormant personality has come out?
His ability to " Let Go" earlier proved his unconditional love towards Bela. But, right now, I see conditional love.
There was one moment very early into the show, that made the biggest impact of what Mahir is to me,
When Yuvi-Bela were getting married 1st time around, Sumi was confiding her fears about Yuvi and Bela. He said, "As long as no one is doing it under pressure and are consenting, it shouldn't matter."
He knows where to draw lines, where to keep head down, where to poke nose and when to stop. It can't be a facade?!
What am I missing? Witnessing a less savory aspect of his personality or he is going through a temporary emotional crisis?
@p.p.s:❤️🤗It's mutual.
But how can it change his core personality? We all know, we are born or raised into certain qualities which no matter what does not change. Exactly, now do how you determine what is the core personality? How you behave in your natural habitat and domain or how you react under crisis and stress?
How we react with our family and friends or how we react in private relationships where we strip ourselves totally naked to a point we become vulnerable.
Infact, he is highly self-preservative. He has time and again mentioned he doesn't play with emotions nor he lets anyone play with his. He even told Bela, " I've kept my heart at your feet, not my self-respect". See, there were logical boundaries he drew, even in love. That's what Mahir always was, practical, in any situation!!!And how many times has he followed up on his words? Yes he did say all these things, how many times did he back up these statements with actions?
He has shown extreme reactions, he has functioned on "all or none phenomenon
Either he wants all in or he is going to drop the whole thing.
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He respects everyone's privacy and knows to draw lines even in his closest bonds!!!
Even with Bela when he knew he was in love with her, he was ready to set her free because that's what he assumed she wanted.He loved her, respected her, gave her space. He respected himself(love him for that!), been fair towards his own emotions and played fair and square.Has his reactions to others been similarly proportioned as they are towards bela? He was willing to set her free? Was that his first reaction?
Didn't we catch a glimpse of his primary reaction?
At that point he was unsure about her feelings. He himself wasn't sure about his own feelings, suddenly the intrusion happened and his calm shattered.He assumed she loved Rehan.
He is madly, completely in love with her but even then he has put his " Main sab theek kar doonga" and " I'll handle it" on back-burner because he trusted Bela can handle it, if she wants to handle it, as she said so. That's quite accommodating and understanding on his part, to control his default settings to 'handle' everything!
This has gone for a serious flip once Bela made her feelings evident.The "I will handle it and main sab theek kardunga " are only out of his words, did he stop his actions. Isn't he smart and observant enough to understand what pisses her off? He got that long time back, so he has changed his tactics. He has obviously understood, to be on her team he has to be a partner and not sole caretaker. This absolutely doesn't mean he doesn't trust that she can't or isn't able to take care of herself, this is his nature, his personality which he and we got to see only after he allowed himself to be vulnerable emotionally. His childhood trauma has blocked him from getting too close to people, his majority of self preservations have come to life through his childhood fears.
Like you said, true personality can only be reigned in, it can't change.
He has identified more with his mother than his father. He fears what happened to his mother can happen to him. Before marriage his first fear was to never become like his father. After falling in love his fear has become about not suffering the fate of his mother. His past and his parent disastrous marriage have impacted his view on love.
His ability to " Let Go" earlier proved his unconditional love towards Bela. But, right now, I see conditional love.At risk of sounding a total boring and unromantic person, I don't necessarily agree with the "unconditional love concept. The closest thing to this is only maternal love, every where else some expectations do leak in, it's only humane. Unconditional love is like suffocating misconception of perfection, it doesn't exist. We are human at the end of the day.
In the past also, after claiming to not have any expections, he drove himself and us crazy within 48 hours of making those claims over Rehan! That was in the very initial stage. Now you can go ahead and multiple that by 12.
There was one moment very early into the show, that made the biggest impact of what Mahir is to me,
When Yuvi-Bela were getting married 1st time around, Sumi was confiding her fears about Yuvi and Bela. He said, "As long as no one is doing it under pressure and are consenting, it shouldn't matter."
He knows where to draw lines, where to keep head down, where to poke nose and when to stop. It can't be a facade?!The moment he said those lines, I kid you not, I knew time was going to make him eat his words back. The most confident people are the ones usually more insecure, the most mature people are the ones usually more juvenile, the most realistic people are ones who are filmi at heart.
Because they have preserved themselves for a long time and from many factors, when the right button is pressed everything flows out at a very high velocity from every possible direction.
How many times haven't we witnessed him claiming that behir marriage was mutual. Yes, it was by the end. Did it honestly start that way?
Did he really discuss it with her and asked for her consent before sitting down at mandap? Didn't she catch him? Later everything was sorted ?
But he always says it was mutual, as if it started that way, what if she had not caught his glimpse before rituals?
We know the behind the curtains story, sure, but for him, this wasn't expected.
Was the divorce discussion mutual? Had both parties given same chance to put their word on the table?
Was the pregnancy preparations mutual? Did he listen to her all along or did she have to take drastic steps to prove?
Majority of the time, the decisions were one sided. Gradually he is learning to incorporate other person into this.
@Keerthija thanks for the kind words🤗
Edited by fibrinogen9 - 6 years ago