The Follies of Youth

Who of us is not guilty of making some not thought through decisions in our younger years? A significant number of people continue this trend throughout their lives!

A lot of us have been finding the 'Naina wanting to feel Sameer's pain and the way she goes about it' scene unsettling and I agree that on some level it is a little OTT. But, she is very young and naive and quite enamoured with the likes of Romeo and Juliet - if Juliet could die for her Romeo... main itna toh Kar hi sakti hu na..

Also, pain and sacrifice was a recurring theme that was equated with true love in those times. Movies often showed the lady in love fasting till she got sick or climbing mountains barefoot while her feet blistered and bleed to pray at the temple on the top for the love of her life. All these actions will be considered extremely impractical and stupid today, but Ye Un Dino Ki Baat Hai! Considering all the factors that have influenced her concept of experiencing and expressing love, I think we should look at it as a silly fancy of that kachi umar.

Let's share a couple of stupid things that we have done at that age that we would not repeat now.
- Getting in a car where the driver is a little/more drunk with a very strong belief that we are invincible.

I have been a 90's kid & have grown up watching those movies.But always used to think those characters in the movies to do such extremities for husband or bf weird.Also killing oneself for a boy i have always found too stupid.But may be i am born logical & practical.

I tried fasting on the day of Kumar Purnima(a festival in my state where an unmarried girl prays moon to get a nice husband).I was bit ill and my mother was okay with the fact that I can atlest have some snacks since eating rice is not allowed.But I was stupid and mad in love. 😆 I tried fasting without even drinking water till afternoon.Result was that I fainted. Got scolding and health worsened more Had to eat rice even.All the fasting gayi bhad me. That day I realized that we get so lost in loving someone that we forget ourselves.Which is stupid and sometimes life threatening even.

Tis is a fun topic actually🤣 n Alhamdulilah nvr tried or did anything of this sort ...Forget that ...i tried to keep myself away from the practicalities of love...Nahi karna hai aur nahi padna hai iske chakkar mei!For me it was always my parents love that kept me going...my top priority!! SO even if i had to resort to serious cheating n lying ...their picture was enough for me to trace my step backward ...i was a seeda bacha ...mastikor ...for me my parents love was above all for me...n rest falls later!

More than half of my decisions r always hurried ones..u nvr think properly before deciding anything!!

Originally posted by: ruchi3179

I have been a 90's kid & have grown up watching those movies.But always used to think those characters in the movies to do such extremities for husband or bf weird.Also killing oneself for a boy i have always found too stupid.But may be i am born logical & practical.

Even i was born in late 80s,I loved the romance f dose those movies,but I never fancied all those needy behaviour.like fasting, nd dying and all.Of unseen Naina s a girl f of 90s ,the movies then we're Maine pyaar Kiya or Dil,where was an obsessive heroine shown there.All the heroines were much pampered by their love interest.I don remember such needy heroines,so I don know where she gets this idea.

Originally posted by: mily_mathew

Even i was born in late 80s,I loved the romance f dose those movies,but I never fancied all those needy behaviour.like fasting, nd dying and all.Of unseen Naina s a girl f of 90s ,the movies then we're Maine pyaar Kiya or Dil,where was an obsessive heroine shown there.All the heroines were much pampered by their love interest.I don remember such needy heroines,so I don know where she gets this idea.

I am a true believer of love and blve sacrifice s a part and parcel of love.

But what Naina is doing is obsession.She s more in love with the idea of love than love.

If u see Sameer hasn't done anything than his usual shenanigans for her to be in love with him so deeply,but what Sameer is showing is true love,since Naina has given him ample reasons.

I quite don't like them glorifying this eagerness to fall in love as true love.

Originally posted by: Anjali33

More than half of my decisions r always hurried ones..u nvr think properly before deciding anything!!

One such decision was saying yes to a guy's proposal without even luving him.. although I asked for some time, I got pure paanch din!!

Later I realised dat we're nowhere close to being a couple😆

Lol. We have done stupid stuff.. it's part of living and hopefully learning 😉

Originally posted by: mily_mathew

Even i was born in late 80s,I loved the romance f dose those movies,but I never fancied all those needy behaviour.like fasting, nd dying and all.Of unseen Naina s a girl f of 90s ,the movies then we're Maine pyaar Kiya or Dil,where was an obsessive heroine shown there.All the heroines were much pampered by their love interest.I don remember such needy heroines,so I don know where she gets this idea.

I am a true believer of love and blve sacrifice s a part and parcel of love.

But what Naina is doing is obsession.She s more in love with the idea of love than love.

If u see Sameer hasn't done anything than his usual shenanigans for her to be in love with him so deeply,but what Sameer is showing is true love,since Naina has given him ample reasons.

I quite don't like them glorifying this eagerness to fall in love as true love.

I completely agree. Naina's following in love starts with just a crush on a cute boy. But, what else could love at first sight be but hormones at play? I have never understood that concept though I am a complete romantic at heart.

Just thinking now.. maybe that's the reason Sameer doesn't understand her love or take it seriously... since he doesn't believe that she knows him well enough to love the real him.
For him some pretty girl without any real substance is not enough to love her.