The True Romantic Love
Friday, July 10, 2009
Recently, I heard from a friend of mine that the divorce rate is booming in India, especially in the southern part of the country. In the world of "instant" everything, this has become just a simple issue on the go. Be it a love marriage or an arranged one, it is same. Where then is the 'true Romantic love'?I happened to meet my uncle recently in my native for a family gathering. His wife (my aunt) passed away last December. They don't have kids too. He is in his late 60s now.As a retired person, he is living all alone, cooking by himself and doing some petty works at home. In the gathering someone asked 'why can't he shift to his relatives' place where he can stay with his brother's family'. I was touched by his answer.His reply was, 'When my wife is here (he meant her cemetry), how can i leave her alone?' he gave an additional info that he has already reserved a place in the cemetry right next to his wife's. What do you call this? Heights of their romantic marital love? Yes it is.
I remember an ironical incident in Bible in Genesis which says "{23:1} And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: [these were] the years of the life of Sarah. {23:2}And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same [is] Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her".
Abraham weeping the death of his 127 year old wife. His love for his wife was strong as death!
Read somewhere, 'A true Romance must sail over the negative points of the partner'. When these days,its difficut to sail over a small breeze, then how wait for a storm to come :)
posted by Feni at 2:58 PM, | 
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Super post! And girl you have hit the question that has been on our minds.I would love to see the follow up and what others have to say about it.
Its all bcoz of girls like you only. Any way nice write up on a good burning issue. I may not call it as 'true Romantic love' or 'romantic marital love' .. its is just LOVE and not only between a couple but every one.
Hey da,
Hats off to your uncle da.
We should make our next generations, to realise what is "real love life", by the way we live.
Hats off to your uncle da.
We should make our next generations, to realise what is "real love life", by the way we live.
very well said feni. its really hard to find people like ur uncle these days. but feni, times are changing. people dont behave as b4. they may not write love poems to their loved ones or weep as openly for the death, but the feelings are still there. the emotions are still there. its just that in this fast world, people dont get time to express their emotions in the proper manner....
Am really touched by the words ur uncle has said. It is very true what your friend has said. Day by day the divorce cases are increasing at a very fast pace and there are different reasons behind them. One can be this trend of so-called "fashion" n not giving enough time together, etc. As someone commented we need to do our best to work on this n let not our future generations suffer. Really a nice post!