This year's Valentine's day will go down in memory for something absolutely negative that had come to light against the message of love that it portrays!
South Africa's 'Blade runner' Oscar Pistorius had shot dead his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
I'm not going into the pros and the cons of the unfortunate incident. And I'm not going into the aspects of what might have caused the tragedy because all such discussions would be purely academic and a waste of time but there are questions that linger in my mind, that I'd like to share with you:-
(a) How can a guy like him carry so much hatred within himself to smother another life? Especially,
in his case, who's been at the cruel end of fate?
(b) Was his girlfriend just an object to be cast away once he was finished with? Any difference in
outlook should have been talked out and if it persisted, they could have walked their separate
ways.
(c) Being in love is a beautiful state and it's during the relationship that the protagonists understand
each other down to the last detail. And after having shared the intimacy, how can one bring oneself
to smother the other even if the provocation was from the other side?
(d) And he's a sportsman who's supposed to be the most flexible in accepting defeats along with
their successes. Where was this spirit of his?
RIP Reeva. May your family have the strength to tide over these difficult times!
Tailpiece.
The right way would have been to walk away from the relationship, never to look back. The associated pain was to be left for time, the healer, to erase!!
South Africa's 'Blade runner' Oscar Pistorius had shot dead his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
I'm not going into the pros and the cons of the unfortunate incident. And I'm not going into the aspects of what might have caused the tragedy because all such discussions would be purely academic and a waste of time but there are questions that linger in my mind, that I'd like to share with you:-
(a) How can a guy like him carry so much hatred within himself to smother another life? Especially,
in his case, who's been at the cruel end of fate?
(b) Was his girlfriend just an object to be cast away once he was finished with? Any difference in
outlook should have been talked out and if it persisted, they could have walked their separate
ways.
(c) Being in love is a beautiful state and it's during the relationship that the protagonists understand
each other down to the last detail. And after having shared the intimacy, how can one bring oneself
to smother the other even if the provocation was from the other side?
(d) And he's a sportsman who's supposed to be the most flexible in accepting defeats along with
their successes. Where was this spirit of his?
RIP Reeva. May your family have the strength to tide over these difficult times!
Tailpiece.
The right way would have been to walk away from the relationship, never to look back. The associated pain was to be left for time, the healer, to erase!!
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