They say one has to be lucky to be in love and most of us would agree with that, but then, what if that love has a different caste, creed or even religion? Does that change love to any extent? Would you think twice before falling in love with someone who’s from some other religion… yes, most of us would.
It’s tragic to see two people, who’re madly in love with each other, fall apart, for they couldn’t meet a happy end just because of their religious differences. When such a failure happens, some say- "They shouldn’t have gone this far when they knew of the consequence they would eventually meet”. Well, I too agree to the statement to some extent and that extent being the fact that if they chose each other at the first place, why did they care for the world thereafter? Okay, so these two people decide to part ways, for their families disagree and the society would indulge in cheeky brickbat about them. What then? Nothing, they simply go and get married to other individuals respectively and that’s how we get a misery pool or four messed up lives, only because two weak individuals couldn’t keep up with their decisions. Huh!
The simple question that arises here is, "Why fall in love when you can’t abide by it?” I think religious difference is the last thing that should deter a couple in love! Alas, it does and that too big time. For some variety loving people, tragically religion is an excuse to move on to someone else. "I was dumped by my boyfriend of four years on the pretext of religious differences. Things were fine until we discussed marriage and I realised that marriage was never in picture for my beau. I was given the most cliché reply- ‘Would love to marry you sweets but can’t’”, says Nida Singh, a Delhi based lawyer.
The years following 2000 have only seen a surge in many mixed marriages but, then, there are exceptions and that too disappointing ones, the ones that have cowardice as a premise and the supposed love forced into oblivion, completely to entirety. It’s weird how some people advocate inter-religion alliances but, run away from them when they get entangled in a similar scenario. After all, not everyone follows what they preach, do they? Only wish that whoever fell in love had the power to take it forward and make a beautiful ending.
Wonder when would they get to know that the love that lies in our hearts, crosses all barriers- that of cast, creed, cultures, religion and even species.