Originally posted by: SmittenKitten
Okay ... we clearly differ on many things here beginning with how we define love. To me, love is a sum total of your actions towards someone that stems from your positive feelings towards them, not just an abstract concept that you obsesses over. In that sense, just because you stop pursuing someone after they turn you down doesn't mean that you stopped loving them. It just means that you respect the other person's decision and would rather channel your energy to your own self and build your own life instead of obsessing over a lost cause. But yeah, if someone starts doing crazy things just to spite the person who turned them down, that's not love, that's just entitlement and resentment, the kind that leads to horrific incidents like acid attacks or worse.
But coming back to the original topic, I was talking about SRK claiming to find his unrequited ishq very powerful and kinda glorifying it even though Ash is not interested in rekindling their relationship. I find that extremely toxic cuz we only have one life to live. I'm a believer of living your life the best way possible and martyrdom in unrequited love (and taking pleasure in that, if you go with SRK here) is not a part of that. Obsessing over a lost cause is no way to spend your precious time while you're here.
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