Love – indeed is a topic which never loses its novelty even on repeated discussion. Discussing a love affair can recharge the monotonous days of our life. It is a wonderful fact that the concept – love – helps us to view everything happening in our life with pleasure. This is true irrespective of the place or time.
As Moppasang views it : The mind entrapped by love is as if one shocked by lightening. On receiving the stroke of that sharp emotion no entry will be given to anybody else.
This was true in its real sense till the last decade. There were no special agenda or restrictions for love affairs by that time. While falling in love, there were flowing fully along with the holy feelings to it. This was true as far as the case of people of bygone generation.
But, what about the present? The youth of the present can never take such things seriously for they consider it as a “cheep sentiments”. For them, everything is a time pass. They don’t give a serious meaning for the usage ‘serious love’(not forgetting the very rare exceptional cases.) the present generation opts to be in love for filling the leisure hours with a love sound in the mobile phone, for perambulating the bike together to avoid a boring evening or for a company in the parlor while smacking the chillness of the ice cream or for enjoying the moods in the pubs or in a nocturnal club. Only that much is their concepts about love.
On the other hand, if anyone wish a fruitful love, they might have earned a full knowledge about the wealth, education, family background, etc., of their mates to be virtuous in front of virtuous in front of the parents. Indeed the saying “love is blind” has grown old!! If some one from the previous generation happen to ask the question “whether you consider your love seriously?” it is quiet natural that the new love/lover will stare at them with a wonder on face, “where is this fellow coming from?”! and he/she will naturally award them with a blinking smile that appears in some corner of his/her face.
“To be frank, I hate these concept of serious love, all are just a time pass. That is all.” This is their view. In the olden days, people with some sort of eminence were been loved by girls. But now they prefer boys having motor bike, recent model mobile phone and pocket full of money. So called hi-tech girls don’t care even the intelligent category. They avoid blind lovThey avoid blind love. They want boys who are ready to take them for trips or those who could entertain them in their shopping. There the education and ability are made secondary to money. Yes, they value money alone.
The girl from the previous generation, fearing the society, were hiding their ambition to talk something to their lover solely. She use to convey the strongest of love feeling rather in a smile or in a twinkle in the eyes. But these are all old stories. Now among the girls of the new era could see those do not hesitate to flirt even for earning pocket money.
Such girls who bid boy to their hostels in the weekends to roam about seeking ‘new world’, new experiences and return cool with the handful of gifts received from the boy friends!! The only demand these young girls put forth while roaming about with boy, about whom they know nothing is that they should be properly gifted with things of the modern world.
Chastity is an outdated concept now. Following the western culture, the new generation has started teasing those girls who don’t have a boyfriend ever!
The girls in a traditional dress, walking along as if a breeze and spreading smell of traditional perfumed oil used for bath cannot be seen even in the short stories now. On the other hand we can see the modern girls wearing skintight jeans and exposing T-shirts worth to exhibit the contours roam about like a storm. But to where..?
Time has given the new generation a collation of the craze of sex and non guidance. Violence and sex reached the college campuses by travelling a lot through the satellites. While the youth of last decade selected the cool shades of the trees as a place for sharing th of the trees as a place for sharing their feeling of love, the modern youth fetch the ‘pub’ and ‘night clubs’ for sharing theirs.. there, when their conscious are bubbled together with the frothing liquid in glass in front, they gradually howl to the world of sex. There they have nothing to lose. But they think they gain every comfort of the modern world!
Now a days it is seen that the love affairs is only for the exchange of love song albums that are available in discs. These high tech lovers don’t have the least of conscious pricking in seeking a new one for their rapture. They never think of the sense of the lyric they heard all late last night. Their sincerity towards their partner and to the lines given by him/her as a token of their love is also like that .
“I can’t help but say, in your ears silently
the love which I have towards you dear…
The rhythm of my heart beat says
That you are mine, ever and ever…”
We can’t sure whether there exist at least a drop of sincerity in these lines sent by a lover to his sweet heart, yesterday; for today he may be singing the same to another with full sincerity as he would say!!
The present generation challenges the famous poet who observes that ‘true love is not sexual’. Probably they may not knowing these lines and the poet who said so.
Love affair too is not an exception. The generation, which embarrassed the out dated conventions, which showed their sincerity in love affairs and renounce everything for that love has almost vanished. A few left behind lives realizing that they are unfit for the present. Knowing that they are ending and helplessly suffering the teasing of the high tech surrounding, they expect their failure.
Oh!! What a change in the relations within a short period of a decade!! What will be the next change can’t imagine at all. Let us go ahead.., viewing the changes eagerly but without giving a chance to beat us. Taking out the feet from heinous with care not to step into the bog of sin. Forget not that the just before generation represent the vanishing species..
COVER STORY.
AAGARROW WEBZINE.
FEB 2008 Issue
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