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Romantic Tales - Contemporary
Essay

Rambling on About Love
by Vikrant John Vedamanikam
© 200
3 Vikrant John Vedamanikam

This work is dedicated to Chua Lee Guek who inspired me
and helped me
explore my literary side.


We see the world in all its splendour, the freshness of this earth we live in. It is a beautiful world, it is our only world, our only world. Or do we…. We can see and not see, be carried away by the superficiality of society which demands we act in a way deemed proper, but what is proper? Because the vast majority demand that it is proper we have to accept it?

I am not suggesting we should walk into our neighbors house and take his possessions, nor am I suggesting that we take the life of an other living creature… NO! I am talking about the hesitancy we feel when we want to tell another about our feelings…why can’t we be honest with ourselves and those around us?

I can see a man tell a girl he loves her, but then why are his eyes firmly fixed on the other woman in the room? Could he not be honest and tell the girl what he really meant instead of playing with her feelings? By telling her he liked or even loved her…he was setting a picture of intimacy, yet his heart was not truly in it…did he do this because he merely wanted companionship? Was his intentions noble and pure? I ask myself…if he was wooing on why did he stare at another?

Would he hurt this girl by his actions today? How far would he go…in his quest for mere companionship, companionship in its most vile and basest form, a temporary setting where hate and hurt lurk at the end of the journey. Why could he not look for true companionship, where those lovely emotions of love, trust and totally fidelity await, where no one else exists except you and your companion? Why does he waste his life looking for temporary fulfillment of his needs… 

I see the depth of intimacy, the vast untapped potential within each person, yet this remains purely potential. Never converted into its kinetic form. A shame, a waste. I cry for us. My tears fall on my cheeks at the thought of this loss, this inability of man to truly express what he feels and his inability to fight the temporary way. There are no shortcuts in life. And even less on the road to love and total commitment to another. 

How can we say we love, when we are looking for mere temporary pleasure and nothing permanent? I say ‘we’ I club my self with all others of my species, I am yet to prove that I am different… perhaps I will one day. I know I will be. I will not waste my love as every drop of love that I have will be bestowed on She, the lady with whom I will spend my life with, or with whom I will share my very being with.

wpe1A.gif (1762 bytes)But I digress, I am talking of what I could do…but my time has yet to come. Why?, why?, Why? Can’t that man be honest with that girl, I feel the anger rising in me now. I know she will be hurt, hurt in all ways. Why should she have to bear the pain for this young mans pleasure? He will enjoy every moment with her until he throws her off like an old shoe with no more remorse in the act, and then look for another young victim.

Life is too short, for us to waste in hurting each other in such a way, why can’t we look for what is permanent? Some one with whom you can spend cold winters mornings cuddling up to, someone to whom you can bring up breakfast in bed, massage her feet when she comes home tired?

Who will share your triumphs and your failures with you? Someone who will make the darkest rain clouds float away? A person whom you will find still beautiful as the day you met her…"You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, she is beautiful because you love her".

Rambling on About Love -2 (Continued)