Separations. Break-ups. Showdowns. Desperate but unsuccessful
attempts to control people, situations or events. Whatever. They are all over
when you stop responding to them. They are over when you decide
they are over.
Yesterday, I had a
conversation with someone from my family after many, many years. We have had
serious issues between us – at least this person once believed that I had
cheated the family and that I was not even worth having a conversation with.
She suggested to me yesterday that we must make a fresh beginning. I replied to
her that while I have long forgiven myself and have forgiven the others
involved in this sordid relationship mess in my family, I just cannot forget
what happened. And I did not see a need to start afresh. I said everyone’s
happy and peaceful in their own worlds – even though these worlds are distant
while we, ironically, live in the same city. I left saying let’s leave things
as they are and simply maintain a ‘hi’ and ‘bye’ relationship.
It is perfectly normal
to have a relationship problem if you can’t trust or relate to the person
concerned. However, you need not carry the anger and grudge in you. It is
pointless. Understand that whoever is the one that caused you pain and agony
has accomplished whatever he or she set out to. The event is over and out. By
expressing anger over the episode, by continuing to direct anger against the
person who caused you the hurt, you are only injuring yourself. Sometimes, it
may not be just a hurt from a word or an act that someone said or did. It may
be from a separation that the pain, the grief ensues. And you want to avenge
the person’s audacity to have betrayed your trust, that too with such impunity.
You seek justice. And your entire being is consumed by this desire to get
‘even’. Because you feel used and discarded __ as if you were toilet paper.
The cocktail of
hate, anger and grief can be depressing, debilitating, lethal. You, and only you,
can draw a line. And decide not to continue with stretching this episode and
story any more. It is best to remember that dwelling on what is past__including
the prime, good times, of a relationship, and pining for those times all over
again __ is futile. Harivanshrai Bachchan (1907-2003), the celebrated poet, and
father of superstar Amitabh Bachchan, says this so beautifully in his poem, ‘Jo Beet Gayi, So Baat Gayi’. Here’s a
translated excerpt:
Jivan mein ek
sitara tha,/ there was a precious star in my Life
Maana woh behad pyaara tha,/ agreed, it was most loved
Woh doob gaya toh doob gaya,/ if that star has set today, then it has set
Amber ke aangan ko dekho,/ look at the courtyard of the skies
Kitne iske taare toote,/ how many of its stars have set or broken away
Kitne iske pyaare choote,/ how many of its beloved have been lost
Jo choot gaye phir kahan mile;/ those stars that have set or been lost, where
have they ever been found
Par bolo toote taaron par/ but tell me on the broken, setting stars,
Kab amber shokh manaata hai / whenever did the skies grieve
Jo beet gayi so baat gayi/ what is past is past ...
It is important to also remember that this
law of change is the law of the Universe. Seasons change. People change. Places
change. Relationships change. You want to start afresh in a relationship, do
it. You don’t want to, as I decided in this case, don’t do it. Whatever you do,
don’t carry grudges and don’t grieve. An irrefutable fact about Life is that each
new beginning results only from something ending. So,
always, what is over is over. And you must just go on, move on!
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