Friday, September 30, 2016

pain of love lasts more than the pleasure; the resulting sadness and barrenness is incredible

It is all about love transmitted to the familiar ones, near and dear but not reciprocated; abundant love thrown out but met with a casual indifference. Time heals all the sorrows and the emotional turmoil resulting from the separation will slowly subside.

I can understand how people suffer by loving blindly and possessively and virtually taking a ride  without  realizing the ramifications on the other side. Whatever may be the cause or circumstances the crude reality is pain of love lasts more than the pleasure that it yielded once. It is very difficult to explain the pain and describe the situation. 

Will time wipe away all the pleasant feelings and finer sentiments? What seemed to be real at one point of time can hardly become illusion in  the present? Even if there is residual one can cling and live with some hope that everything is not lost.

Mirza Ghalib captures this existential dilemma of those whose only fault is jut loving and loving only without any expectation. He says :

Oh! The incredible sadness that is so intertwined with unrequited love. With the deepest sigh in your heart for the person you love is met with a casual nonchalance…..it is just so unbearable.How does one describe it?

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