The other side of love story...

I must confess that I have been watching a lot of romantic movies lately and even though it made me glad that the protagonists do end up together in the end.. my heart went out for the ones who are the collateral damage of this love story. Almost every love story has one or two collateral damages who lend a intriguing twist to the story and in most cases are depicted as the villain of the movie. The collateral damage I am referring to here, is the person whom the protagonists are dating /married /living in with, when they realise that they love each other and chuck their partners in matter of few seconds to be with the ones they truly belong. In the end, we always have tears of joy that the love story was with a happy ending vis-a-vis the protagonists, no one bothers to think what ever happened to the "other person". Love stories are so romanticised that no one even thinks of the person who lost out; whose dreams were shattered and in many cases was left to bleed when their partner decide to walk out on them.


If a story was to be made on someone who lost out, how would it go? Imagine.. maybe it would sound something like this. There was once a girl who knew not what love was. All her life she learnt not to depend on the kindness of the universe.. rather believed on the merit of hard work. She lost both her parents at a young age and life had prepared her for the tough road ahead. All through her teenage life she faced difficulties and made things work for her. After graduation, she landed into a wonderful job and finally began to live a life she always aspired, a life of plenty. Then, she meets this wonderful guy at work and things that she never thought possible begin to happen.. she falls in love with him. During their courtship, she understands this guy and knows more about him. She knows that he has been out of a long relationship with a bad breakup and tries her best to make her own space in his life. Over a period of time he begins to appreciate what she has done for him and how she has stood by him and helped him overcome a tough time and feels its better to be with the person who loves you rather than the person you love. Years pass by, one day she gets "the proposal" from him. Life finally had given her all that she ever asked for.. life had given her in abundance for all that it had taken from her during her childhood and growing up years. Over the next few weeks she spends every waking moment planning her wedding and the life with the person she loves. Then, one fine day, out of the blue comes the ex-girlfriend of her fiancee .... regrets her past mistakes and begs him to take her back. Her fiancee has a epiphany that in fact he still loves his ex-girlfriend and he was going to compromise by settling for this woman and runs off with her. Now, life has turned a full circle.. she is again condemned to a life where she is made to realise that she was unwanted by the one person whom she loved the most. All her dreams were shattered by the person whom she helped get over a bad patch in his life; in fact she is left alone for loving someone selflessly.


Now, lets see if we still feel happy for the protagonists that they found love in the end. Was all well, in the end, that looked so well? I don't think so. If they were truly meant to be together, they would have believed in their love and waited for the other person to show up and not build their dreams on the tears of a person who had nothing to do with their "love story" but was loving one of them in good faith. How do we say that the protagonists was true love and our girl was not loving truly. Wasn't her love for the guy as much qualified to succeed as the ex-girlfriend who had dumped him at one time. We say all is fair in love... this surely doesn't seem fair. I rest my case.

PS: Special thanks to Mr. Kedar Amonkar, whose thoughts I am penning down in this blog.

So long....