Love Triangles

The king , the princess and the knight.........

I haven't really dived into the recent romances that have appeared in print, (though i confess to being a die hard romantic and have had my share of classic love stories as a teenager which was pretty recent). it is just that I would rather invest my precious reading time in discovering the realms of philosophy, history or some political drama , and if knowledge is not the pursuit of my reading then it has to be the sheer beauty of the work that inspires me to appreciate it by reading it further. Not that their haven't been some great romances in the recent times, in fact both the Hollywood and the Indian film industry continuously supply us with chick flicks and rom coms that capture the effervescent love with a so called fresh perspective and that's precisely the reason why reading one doesn't really seem like an appealing idea.

Anyhow the absolute girl inside often emerges and takes her share of space in my mind from the practical head that I always think of myself as. so recently when i happened to stumble upon a book in my younger siblings closet I couldn't help but flip a few pages, by the review it seemed like a regular for our generation, a teen drama entangles in a fantastic fable mixed with plenty of supernatural elements . I realized that it had also been turned into a series which was quite a hit with all my female friends at college. moreover the cover was not really ominous with tell tale signs of unbridled passion and it seemed to be a good frivolous read. I admit with  a slight discomfort that I had followed the Twilight Saga with an interest that would be termed deeper than the superficial curiosity that I had feigned while buying the first copy.Thus while reading a book that seemed to be on similar lines I could not help but draw a parallel between the two. other than the supernatural mumbo jumbo what i found common to the two was 'a love triangle'.a complicated relationship that was between the protagonists . substantial characters entwined in an emotional mess along with the supernatural clutter.I really thought that originality had come to an end not just with those who write but even those who lap up the same old wine in a new bottle.I scoffed with an intellectual's pride over the masses taste for fresh ideas and originality or the lack of it.

Later that week in the quest of a more insightful reading experience, I started reading a best seller by one of my favourite bestselling author. he also mentioned the concept of multiple soul mates and after a certain point the whole story seemed to revolve around the theory. (sic)
here I should mention at the risk of sounding a little orthodox (I don't really believe that though, I feel like I'm one of the fantastic characters from a fable who are rare to keep the sanctity of a belief in a skewed world :p)
that I still believe in the concept of one true love and there is this strong need to belong to a single person and have an unadulterated love with a deep and lasting meaning.

I was pretty disturbed at this strange phenomena of triangles all around me.the fact that one of my friends confided into me about one of her personal experiences of the same sort and that the author whom i revered for his works also corroborated the multiple soul mates theory was of no help.
so for the next few days i snuggled into my comfort with a few old classics, and took respite that Austen, who had been quite a rebel for her times justified my view to an extent... one life,one love :)
but then it seemed even classics had to mess with my ideas, I discovered Camelot, the tale where King Arthur shares the princess with the valiant knight Lancelot.....no running away from clandestine affairs ..sigh : /

the other day , I sat with a cuppa with the dear friend of mine and she asked a question quite nonchalantly, just the random discussion you have with your girlfriends, that make no sense, just like that.

the question was a hypothetical situation in which I had a choice of saving any one from my friend and my lover from a possible life threatening situation. stupid stuff, I answered nonchalantly with an equally stupid answer, that seeing both in such a situation, the faint hearted person that I am I might just beat em both to the gates of hell .
later I thought about it and realized that it was quite a dilemma, they both meant the world to me and secretly I prayed that i would never have to chose.

that's when I realized that the multiple soul mate theory might just have some substance.There can exist a few triangles or even squares, pentagons and all possible polygons. I still wont jump into an illicit affair, though I might just be a part of a triangle already.;)

SO here I am sitting with a book that seems to be headed in the same direction and I would just sit back and smile wryly as I read it till the end .......(wink wink).