True Love?

Let me tell you a story:

Boy meets girls
Falls in love
Marries her

Baby is born

Boy now falls in love with sister-in-law
Sister-in-law’s marriages fixed
Both boy and sister-in-law commit suicide

This is the story of a near famous footballer, who took his team to greater heights.

If he was so successful as a footballer, why did he fail so miserably as a human being.

If he really loved his wife, he would not have cheated on her and prevented himself from doing anything that would hurt her. Or given a scenario he was really in love with his sister-in-law he would not have wanted her to die.

I strongly believe “when you are in love the other person’s happiness means more than your own.”

Also research proves that in the initial stages of a relationship you cannot take sensible decisions. It is because levels of a hormone which causes calming effect falls, as low as the level of a person suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder.

Secondly he had no vision of the future. He probably never did think of what his family would go through. Whose death would his wife mourn; a husband who cheated on her or a sister who snatched her husband away from her? What will the child go through while growing up? What will be the state of his parents?

I strongly believe “Love fails, only when we fail to love”.

Does it not sound like a episode from the bold and the beautiful? Don’t you all think we are getting too westernized?

Let me tell you a “desi” story set in the UK.

Boy meets girl.
Both fall in love.
Boy marries girl.

Girl cannot give birth to a child.

Boy never leaves girl.
Treats her like a princess.
Girl dies after 40 years of marriage.

This is the story of a successful Dr.Mahesh Mirani. Here are a few lines from his personal collection he writes for his beloved wife, 6 years after her death.

I have a silent sorrow
A grief I will never impart
It breathes no sigh
It sheds no tears
But it still consumes my heart

I strongly believe “Love grows as you grow older with your partner”.

This my friends, is true love.