love, parents and prices
Read on a friend's blog - everyone has to pay the price, for his or her own fault, for loving someone, for being loved by someone.
I don't know how to respond to this..... especially the latter half..... "for loving someone, for being loved by someone". May be he is right.... But, i think in life we always pay the price for making choices.... any kind of choices.... Even a choice as mundane as ordering Pizza from Domino's or from Pizza Hut comes with its own price..... here is another - buying an original book from Landmark (Vera loves this store!) or its nakli copy from a roadside shop.... the price has to be paid for making a choice, isn't.....
The bad thing about LOVE and its pricing policy is that it involves much more than an individual.... In a country like ours, it includes religion, society, parents etc. Again, here we pay the price for being a social animal(was it Aristotle?).... we want our parents to be happy, our parents want us to be happy..... but sadly, this entire exercise results in misery for both the parties..... we are not happy because we lost what we loved and our parents are not happy when they see us transformed into an unhappy, distressed soul.... I think that parents also somewhere feel a sense of guilt for forcing their will upon us. Isn't it an irony that we give all kinds of freedom to our children during their process of growing up but when they have grown up, we can't help to remind them the right way....
I don't know how to respond to this..... especially the latter half..... "for loving someone, for being loved by someone". May be he is right.... But, i think in life we always pay the price for making choices.... any kind of choices.... Even a choice as mundane as ordering Pizza from Domino's or from Pizza Hut comes with its own price..... here is another - buying an original book from Landmark (Vera loves this store!) or its nakli copy from a roadside shop.... the price has to be paid for making a choice, isn't.....
The bad thing about LOVE and its pricing policy is that it involves much more than an individual.... In a country like ours, it includes religion, society, parents etc. Again, here we pay the price for being a social animal(was it Aristotle?).... we want our parents to be happy, our parents want us to be happy..... but sadly, this entire exercise results in misery for both the parties..... we are not happy because we lost what we loved and our parents are not happy when they see us transformed into an unhappy, distressed soul.... I think that parents also somewhere feel a sense of guilt for forcing their will upon us. Isn't it an irony that we give all kinds of freedom to our children during their process of growing up but when they have grown up, we can't help to remind them the right way....
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