The truth behind Love Stories

When we talk about love, we immediately associate it with romance, feelings, passion, intimacy. Eternal lovers! Isn’t it?

Romeo and Juliet! Cleopatra and Mark Antony! Napeleon and Josephine! Orpheus and Eurydice!

In a story about eternal lovers, written by Rabindranath Tagore, the hero and heroine decide to live as eternal lovers on the two sides of the Ganges River. Once a week, they come by boat, meet each other and get back.

If they do this, obviously they will be at peace during the time they meet. Every time they meet, there will be freshness in the air because they know that they will be together for only a few hours; the moment becomes precious!

All eternal lovers, be they Romeo and Juliet or Laila and Majnu, Tristan and Isolde, they never really lived together! If they had lived together their eternal love would have to be retold!

Our lives often show another kind of love story...

The problem is, life doesn’t have background music! When you watch the love stories on television, they all come with background music and so you easily enter into a fantasy world. You are completely mesmerized by the atmosphere created in the television box.

If we look sincerely into what we call ‘love’, we’ll realize that there are many expectations. Very often, this so-called love is a mere transaction, a business deal!