Loving Karna is my choice

I never thought of justifying why I love Karna the most. This post is just about why I am this crazy and sensitive for this Mytho character called Karna (inspite of being a woman- pardon my specifying this😳)

Abandoned as a child - If you think this in terms of modern era since we have habit of relating what happened thousand years ago to present situations then he represent those children of society who are left by their parents who did mistakes in their lives and are not responsible enough to face it so they run away from responsibility and their mistakes are somehow burdened on their children. Now I know many would say .. Kunti was helpless at that time and she had no choice and Karna did have good foster parents and he led good childhood n all... But he was a born prince who could have easily got what he wanted .. respect.. his desire to learn archery.. and most importantly he could avoided hating his own brothers...It amuses me how people easily passes this incident of karna as if it was nothing while it did change a lot for Karna's fate...

Had to fight for respect in society- There exist this mindset even now that a person has to be judged from caste he belongs to.. Many of us educated people still suffer from prejudiced from people coming from weaker section of society.. I have seen people utter disrespectful words to people lower to them... Yes and this 1000s of years after Karna the great.A person should be respected for his deeds and not his birth... He may be rich having high caste but in deeds he would be lowest of low.. Still people will respect him.. due to his name in society... I am not saying all are like that... I m just saying that these issues so much exist and our society is infected with this disease...Such people most of times accept this as their fate but very rare are those who fight for their place in society...Even today its hard to find such people while we had him such long time ago...

Loyal friendship to Duryodhan- I know many can have contrary views on this. Saying that if he was loyal enough ,why did he spare 4 pandavas... to me he was trying to be fair to all ..he was bounded by friendship to be by duryodhana's side.. though he promised to not kill 4 of his brothers, he fought fair war on dury's side knowing that he is fighting his own kin.. his own brothers..his own nephews...

Danveer - It is very easy to pass this as customary ritual for a vrat or may be a sankalp ..

but have you ever fulfilled a needy's wish.. If you have then you will realise how it feels .. when person smiles in relief and thank you for bottom of his heart... His acts of kindness may not be that much important for people to recognise his goodness of heart...but isnt it strange that praise is heaped on him for the very same deed... if it was not an honest practice of Karna..people would not have named him as Danveer Karna... and this man was so big in giving that he didnt mind ripping his body apart... I can still shiver imaginning pain he must have gone through ..and that too for his enemy's father...

And most importantly he was what he was...Yes he did some mistakes... he was on wrong side... he was wrong with harsh words for draupadi.. he was wrong at many such instances.. but I accept him with these flaws ..He was no all white saint character...He was a human with flaws and weaknesses.. and inspite of these weaknesses...he rose strongly with his strengths... he was man who wore heart on sleeves... and such men do make impulsive mistakes which they later repent too... that doesnt make them any less of man... his repentance made him a bigger man .. His denial of Krishna's offer made him bigger ... this is for those who called him selfish... I wish he was selfish ..then probably he would have not died in war...

I can go on and on.. This post is not to prove anyone anything..This post is to tell people that people who love karna doesnt disrespect or demean greatness of other characters in the epic...It is just that Karna is closer to heart as in his struggles we can see our struggles at time..In his mistakes , we learn what not to do when faced with such situation...and in his strengths we learn what we can make as our strength... He is real immortal mortal (word credit to Sayanee here😳)

Most importantly.. Loving Karna is my choice and that doesnt give any right to anyone to judge me for that😊. Coz I might be sentimental...but you dont get judgemental Okay...!

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Best thing about Karn is his lovers and haters both love to discuss hin😉

I too love him for all points u mentioned above.He indeed wasnt a saint or a pure white character. But no one was saint in mb .

Take a hug from me ritumaa🤗

Your reply has waken me up..😆..I mean though its too late at night but couldn't resist replying. I agree some are there..but then aren't there fans in other groups who demean other characters. People have their own perception .What I meant with that statement of mine was dont judge that a karna fan will insult draupadi..or say Arjun.. That's personal opinion of people my dear friend ...You can't generalise things ...I have heard many demeaning things for women from those who love draupadi.. So it doesn't matter which MB character you love...what matters is how much understanding you have of that character and that differ from people to people...If people who are karna fans demean other characters just to bring him up then they understand karna so little...n obviously other characters too ..

I have just mumbled some words ..but I hope you get my point dear...Being a woman doesn't mean I should only understand woman's viewpoint... That makes us narrow minded.. I just want people to understand that definition of feminism is not limited to criticising karna.. In real world.. Karna can be found in women too...I bet if karna was a woman ..many thoughts wud have been different ..anyways that's a different thing...😆

I m too sleepy...Good night dear