Theater is good... especially the plays which are thought-provoking.
Or some which show you the other side of things.
Few which show things you have went through... and those make you think again.
'U-Turn' (Marathi) did the same.
The concept of Live-In relationships taken in a different context. Two single parents meet by chance...
(leave aside their pasts... let us focus on the basics)
...get to know each other by chance encounters and fall (slowly and surely) in love. Both hide the fact (from each other) that their respective children are disapproving their 'companionship'; since they have decided not to get married.
They live thus for a year which includes her son's marriage and his daughter's pregnancy.
In the end they (she) decide (decides) to call it off because the happiness of their children is more important than their love lives. It was they who struggled to make their spawn what they are... how can their emotions be disregarded now? So, in spite of his pleas, she calls it off. She leaves him.
Yeah he tells her to return at the slightest change of her mind... but that is purely to give his broken heart a distant hope.
They leave each other for her son who is settled in the UK and has married a blond. A son who does not invite his mother for his wedding.
They leave each other for his daughter who is settled in another metro, is close to his ex-wife. So what if she cares about him? He has no right to be happy?
Who should sacrifice and whose job is it to understand and accept the situation as it is?
Should parents stay alone all their lives just because their children think so?
Or should those goofballs of 'children' accept their parents' needs?!
Both of them took a U-Turn in their happy lives just to ensure there's no dead-end in the relationships with their children which 'might' have happened.
Let us consider the same case where children are involved and parents oppose the match.
I won't state the obvious but is it the parents who are going to stay with the married couple?
If all parents want is their child's happiness, is denying their offspring the right to choose love, justified?
Should the child give up what they love just because the parents think so, for no logic and with no rationality whatsoever?
Or should the 'parents' understand and let their child live?
A sparrow feeds its chicks day and night (my place is a maternity home for these feathery gits)... what for?
The chicks fly away... do they look back? No.
We are humans, individuals and are able to think if we want to.
Emotions and Love come naturally to us.
But should we live for the sake of another?
Do our parents own us?
Can we allow ourselves to be 'owned' by them?
Do they really expect something in return for the things they went through while bringing us up?
Or it it entirely up to us to give them the love they deserve?
Should our love and our respect towards Mom-Dad be obligatory or by choice?
Our lives are, after all, ours to live...
Why the effing U-Turn when we travel alone with the ones we choose?
Why the frigging U-Turn when our loved ones are always there... just two steps behind us? ;)
