Love Like Devdas
Life arc hint #3. Love like Devdas.
Devdas is the protagonist in one of the finest novellas I’ve ever read. The son of a prominent family, he fell in love with a lower class girl he grew up with. She loved him back. The world and its wealth demanded he could not be with her. He lost sight of the big picture , and succumbed to the pressure. Instead, she was married to someone else. His fall ensues, ending in a tragic trip to see her one last time. It is simply written, maybe 100 pages, but emotionally demanding.
The lesson? Experience all-encompassing, life-forfeiting, sacrificing-everything love.
The kind that makes living worth it. Doesn’t matter for whom. For her, him, the kids, your parents, the company, the cause, the book, or the dog. Just experience the kind that, when afire, makes the world easier to bear. The kind that, if lost, the only logical conclusion is to drink yourself to death. (Just don’t fuck up to the point where that is true.)
-Shlok
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