On Sunday 15 Jun 2008 9:54:35 pm Nishant Shah wrote:
> I am not sure if you are posting a lament
> or a critique or that mythical thing - an objective observation. I would be
> very interested to know (and I am really not being cheeky here) what is the
> point of this email. Is it to kick-start conversation like it used to be in
> the 'good old days' or is it more a generic comment on how everything good
> comes to an end;
Recall the first three words I wrote:
>Personal observations here
So much for objectivity..
On the subject of whether things "were" good and have now "come to
end", "getting personal" changes the meaning of what is good and what is bad.
If I must post my thoughts in the form of a question, I would ask, "Where
has the romance gone"
Using the analogy of the much maligned difference between love and marriage:
Gone is the quickening of one's heart on reading or hearing the words of
one's lover. Gone is the need to parse sweet nothings ("I'm going to tickle
your toes till you die laughing") from words of heavy import ("I want this
moment to last forever").
These are replaced by words that are no less important in the scheme of
things, "Where are my socks?" and "We've run out of diapers for the baby"
You can make a movie out of romance and sweet nothings for the emotions they
evoke, but you are more likely to make a soap opera out of the humdrum
realities of life after the romance ends.
shiv
