As long as humans will live, communication will be alive. As long as communication lives, there are bound to be interpersonal conflicts. Resolving those very conflicts are a sign of a mature individual with sufficient amount of Emotional Quotient. This story is about such an interpersonal conflict where resolving the conflict is confusing as there isn't anything wrong or right about emotions ever.
Coming from the land, where arranged marriages are not uncommon, I have always tried to understand the amount of interpersonal conflicts it creates. The situation goes: A pretty South-Indian girl meets, falls in love and decides to marry a handsome North-Indian boy. One might think everything seems perfectly simple as the people involved in this very institution of marriage are agreeable to the proverbial pact of spending the coming seven lives with each other. But fortunately or unfortunately it is not that easy. Fortunately, because many in India die due to lack of drama in their lives, and stories pertaining to familial matters always interest Indians. Nevertheless, the simple love story comes to a standstill.
Now the issue is of the strict, conservative and geographically oppositely placed set of parents. The young couple in love is suddenly not allowed to get married to each other because their parents - the people who would hardly spend time with each other - have a problem with each other. And that very problem doesnt stay restricted to their minds, but are very well percolated into the minds of the young lovers turning their dream of holy matrimony to an absolutely obsolete idea. The reasoning parents use is the fact that too much diversity in the culture of the bride and the groom will create household conflicts and cause irrefutable marital problems leaving the idea of being together redundant. This way of thinking is understandable to a very large extent, but again the fact that two mature individuals have decided to be with each other after supposed thinking-over comes into the picture. Hence questioning their intent or maturity is not exactly called for.
This brings us to the question of resolving such a conflict. This is a very common dilemma and since this involves emotions, it is difficult to think of a generic answer. The choice to be made is about choosing family or the person you want to get married to. Is it morally right for the young lovers to disregard their parents who have brought them up and go ahead with the marriage or is it alright for them to forget about the love they shared because their parents always know the right thing?
Now the issue is of the strict, conservative and geographically oppositely placed set of parents. The young couple in love is suddenly not allowed to get married to each other because their parents - the people who would hardly spend time with each other - have a problem with each other. And that very problem doesnt stay restricted to their minds, but are very well percolated into the minds of the young lovers turning their dream of holy matrimony to an absolutely obsolete idea. The reasoning parents use is the fact that too much diversity in the culture of the bride and the groom will create household conflicts and cause irrefutable marital problems leaving the idea of being together redundant. This way of thinking is understandable to a very large extent, but again the fact that two mature individuals have decided to be with each other after supposed thinking-over comes into the picture. Hence questioning their intent or maturity is not exactly called for.
This brings us to the question of resolving such a conflict. This is a very common dilemma and since this involves emotions, it is difficult to think of a generic answer. The choice to be made is about choosing family or the person you want to get married to. Is it morally right for the young lovers to disregard their parents who have brought them up and go ahead with the marriage or is it alright for them to forget about the love they shared because their parents always know the right thing?
