Weddings are made in Heaven.
Yells the red card in the local greeting card store.
They say that weddings are made in heaven, but last week a friend got married to hell. Okay I am sorry. Thats not what her better half is. He is an IITian. He has a house in Cuffe Parade. His dad has given him a property share of over 30 crores. he is okay looking.
So why is she married to hell again?
Ok so you didnt get the point as yet? You see, the friend married all the externalities. She and her parents got married to the guy’s conditions, not the guy itself. So it doesnt matter that he doesnt have the same interests as she does, it doesnt matter if his only desire is to hold her hand and whisper cheesy lines. It is also immaterial that the guy she loved for 8 years stood in the same wedding hall and watched her get married to someone else.
Is this where you get judgemental? Is this where you say that the guy who loved her didnt have the balls to marry her?
I would have said the same thing if the Oh-SoGreat-Almighty god wouldnt have come in between. You see, my friend and her boyfriend loved each other very much. Their love was as fresh as the monsoon rains on dry earth and they loved each other like no two people on earth. And its not about guts or glory or the world.
Its about the stupidity and prestige associated with god. Yes the god that you write in capital letters. The god my friend’s parents worshipped like there was no end in sight. Not in a fanatical way, but in a way that tramples dreams and leaves dry tears behind. For that omnipresent god, my friends parted ways and took the burden of distance and incomplete love.
My friend was a Christian and her boyfriend was a Hindu. In so many different contexts these things dont matter, but in the face of parental opposition and things known as prestige, love had to bow down.
Isnt it funny, we want art, music, movies and even love to bow down to the supposedly great god? And when we do see love not fighting it till the end, we blame the lovers, saying–’Why didnt you think it through?’, ‘Why did they get involved in the first place?’.
What would you do? Would you be in love and risk the wrath of community? Risk the very real possbility of living in hiding? or would you bow down to the pressures and move on in life with someone more suitable? or would you move on in life with someone well-packaged?
How long is it when we decide we are out of love? and in the face of an adversity like god, how does one unlove someone else?