Is it not a matter of choice?
After long discussions with colleagues and friends, and reading here and there on the topic of live-in relationship, I was about to give final touches to this post when Mahesh called in. It was about the posts on the same topic on his blog. The posts and the comments those posts have evoked really amused me. How can we be so stubborn to stick to our point of view just for the sake of defending it!!! If we say something is wrong in other person’s perspective, then we overwhelmingly want to prove how right we are in thinking so- and get this much mesmerized with our line of thought that we fail to see other lines running parallel to our own. Mahesh writes a story depicting two extreme values of the society, where one female takes it the wrong way. And then starts a discussion, which eventually turns out to be a war of words where almost every one is sticking at either of the two fronts - one pro and one anti; and some onlookers dropping their shells in between. Now, coming