Originally posted by: EkPaheli
Hey Doc hope you had a pleasant sleep cos your post just made my day π Sure someday we would get to discussing books absolutely. I would be enriched π³ Stop it Gurl! Like G you are making me blush.@red - last night I was too overwhelmed the first time when I saw the whole thing, the second I was taking things in on the LU where most of us gather to take pieces apart but after a night' sleep I realized I am having a weird deja vu with this one and reading your post BAM - that scene hit me.posting it for ya OMG what an intense scene, I wanna slap puttar at the same time take him in an embrace! And now yesterday's episode made so much sense![YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7wG0JigKEk[/YOUTUBE]@blue - yep the past makes him learn to not repeat the same mistakes but in order to avoid repeating himself the man makes new one - human error - like you said he is judging the book by its cover. He is letting his vision cloud his judgement - he is assuming what I see is the truth and nothing else could be and is too scared cos of his past to actually muster the courage and speak up about it. His insecurity because of his past scarrs him and has made him so jaded...and ironically that insecurity is the very thing he hides. I would like to recall the recent hospital scene and another scene of Ishita Ruhi...recently Ruhi got Ishita to eat when she laid herself bare - said she is scared of losing her Ishima, what did the woman do - she embraced her child and did the needed that would pacify her - she ate. Similarly when Ruhi took a stand for Ishita and stated her papa did wrong, her papa doesnt love her and it scares her that her Ishimaa may leave her Ishita immediately soothed her and said you are enough for me, your love is more than enough for me the night Raman made Ishita say sorry to Adi...all Raman has to do is follow the path his daughter has shown to him time and again - to bare fears and trust the one you are baring them in front of to accept them and protect you rather than mask them as your strength, as he did last night. He tried to overpower her in a way, intimidate her because he is scared...he had to only show his fears not scare her to really get her to embrace him.Can we please please get Ruhi back, I think she is the guiding light for Ishita and Raman, her pious heart can show her parents where they have erred. Thanks for brilliantly tying all of this together! πCant help but recall a lovely quote by a book I fell in love with here; since last night he adopted monstrosity to hide his vulnerability scared it would be laughed at"Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters."
Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the LaneGirlfriend I love you for this quote, it describes puttar to the T!
When he would accept this and bare himself to her would he realize how futile was it to hide, rather how mistaken he was to have done it in the first place...he is masking himself in the fear she would run away lest she see who he really is, unable to understand she sees him already and has loved him for the man he is - flaws and all, she just wants him to come to her and reveal himself of his own free will and not run scared. He may have fooled the world but not her; only in assuming that he has fooled her too, he is fooling himself. π³
We often get so scared to see our inner selves that we hide our vulnerability from our own selves, Raman and Ishita need to see through their souls first to appreciate their vulnerability and then be comfortable enough with each other to share it amongst themselves. Till you don't see your 'naked' self in the mirror you can't truly love yourself, and if you don't truly love yourself then there is no way you can love anyone else.
"I tore off my mask so as not to lose one of her tears... and she did not run away!...and she did not die!... She remained alive, weeping over me, weeping with me. We cried together! I have tasted all the happiness the world can offer."
Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Operaπ€ I love The Phantom of the Opera! If you get a chance you need to watch it on broadway in NYC, it is breathtaking.