Friday, April 8, 2011

Ode to the Cruel Lover

When we read a story..... any kind of story...... there are different ways it ends....... theres the ever popular but rare and unrealistic - Happy Ending...... or the more common and real but heart wrenching - Sad Ending....... theres the story that has no definite ending and makes the reader ponder and think about its end..... and then theres the unfinished ending....... where everything has stopped abruptly and a cruel and eternally stinging ending.....
             Mostly love stories with such endings are widely read for their different content or they are read by people who have gone through such an experience themselves and can relate to......... or maybe their just looking for some closure...... or an idea of what to do...... or because they know that they are not alone and that there are many other cruel lovers and their heartbroken counterparts........... the heartbroken lover is saddened deeply and goes on leading their tragic period..... they are comforted by friend and family...... they are shown the brighter side or hidden opportunity...... they are also reassured of exactly how heinous their cruel lover was..... In some cases the heartbroken lover realizes that and becomes a hater of the opposite sex or just that one person who has spoiled their idea of love - this becomes something they live with forever or till they meet the lover that makes it disappear......... Or the heartbroken lover understands and harbours no ill feeling..... and to such lovers I proclaim my eternal gratitude and affection - for they are the true deservers.
                                                                                But we rarely look at the cruel lover who has wrenched away the happiness for whatever reason..... maybe they, as Shakespeare put it found an "alteration" - in which case can we blame them for finding someone better suited to them?........ of course that depends how exactly they committed the crime....... maybe they just got bored - How dare they!....... but even to that what can you  say but that they fell out of love........ is it to be blamed? - are you not to be blamed for thinking it was true love?........... there are many permutations and combinations of lovers..... but by far the worst is the cruel lover who had to put an end to their love for the sake of themselves and the other....... to save the two of further grief and complexity........ recognising that love alone was not enough to stay together and that the many other factors that made it a union, were in conflict............ the cruel lover who knew it wouldn't last till the end of time and to make sure the last moments were of joy and not anger...... the cruel lover who hopes in time their beloved will eventually rise above from this grief and live a life of happiness and content, possibly with another more suited........ but to find out that the heartbroken lover is ever understanding and doesn't demand your love but only your happiness wherever it may be........... what does the cruel lover do now?....... except put on a mask and live every moment joyously, daring not to think back of their heartbroken lover and their memories together........ for who knows, maybe all the masks in the universe will not hide their misery......

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