
"I guess that's just part of loving people: You have to give things up.
Sometimes you even have to give them up."
Lauren Oliver
~Edited
I have mixed feelings about the episode. On one hand my heart wanted to reach out and give Raman a bear hug for his selfless love for Ishita, for feeling she deserves better...for sitting in the parking lot avoiding coming face to face with her or crying alone in the family room engulfed in darkness fighting against his own anguish...a desolate man who's ready to give up the love of his life, trying to 'save' her from all the trouble that has landed in her life because of his previous marriage and also Param. It was gut-wrenching to watch him in those scenes and his scene with Pathak. Or when he finds the two chunks of his heart sleeping peacefully on their bed...probably his last time seeing them sleeping together. Heart-breaking.
But the wife in me wants to smack him on his head and yell "have you lost it?"
What makes him think, his departure would ensure that Ishita's life becomes like it was before. And what was that life? A young woman who had resigned to her ill-fate of a life alone as she cannot bear children. She had given up on love. Raman heralded that love back in her life and then some. That feeling of being cherished by someone. The feeling of having someone by your side who may pull your leg in the privacy of their bedroom but will stand up for you and give you unconditional support if anyone dares to point a finger at you. He knows she's deeply in love with him and that she knows her love is reciprocated by him. Will the divorce from him not break her spirit again? So the divorce will protect her from those people who really don't matter to her...but wouldn't it kill her to lead a life without her Ravan Kumar?
And what about his family...his daughter who only the other day, tied their hands together so that they stay together, as a unit?
So RKB, in your self-sacrificing mode in order to protect Ishita you're taking away from Ishita and Ruhi their source of sustenance: YOU.
Life throws in problems, running away from those problems never takes the problem away...it's better to face them, standing together ..by each other.
Done with sermon from Pastor Gan (thanks Doc for inspiring me) đłđ
Note:
- Have several complaints about the editing today. So when is Raman leaving?...Ishita plans to wait up at night to surprise Raman as he is leaving the next day...gets up in the morning to find Raman has left for office...then at the office instructing Pathak to get the divorce paper ready and bring it home next morning...So I was really confused. đ..the execution was missing something
Otherwise it was beautiful..an episode of opposing shades of love...