I was stunned!
When I found that Hrithik and Suzanne are living separate and may file for divorce, I could not believe it. How could a fairy-tale like romance like theirs end? Years earlier, I remember watching Suzanne talk about their relationship with such dreamy eyes, I thought this girl is head over heels in love with the guy in her life.
I started thinking why I was so affected by the news. Sure, I understand that relationships change over the years, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse, and sometimes just because change is what differentiates our past from the future. Love and loved ones are not an exception to this. Especially, in the case of extremely successful people, relationship dynamics are even more volatile...Then why did I not take the news casually? Was it because I believed Hrithik and Suzanne are an ideal couple? Nah...after all, what do I really know about them? Was I feeling insecure about my own relationship with Sharath because we also dated for soo long before getting married in a similar fashion? Even that's not the case...our life circumstances would have anything but a zero degree of correlation....I thought on, but could not find an answer to my slightly agitated state about the news...it stayed on with me sub-consciously...
As I came across this news again, it suddenly dawned upon me as to what was so unsettling about the news! It was Hrithik's statement in which he indicated that Suzanne was the only love of his life and will remain so even in the future. My perception of his statement is that even if both were responsible for the emotional void between the two, one had decided to branch off and have a life of their own. This was the reason why I did not treat their breakup as just another news.
So what does one do if after seventeen years of love, two kids and amazing memories with each other, you realize that you have irrevocably lost the partner with whom you had the best time of your life? If both the persons in the relationship have moved on to be different individuals, that's totally fine...But what if only one has moved on and left the other partner with haunting memories of the past, making it impossible to see a happy future? I would never know if this is what happened between Hrithik and Suzanne and maybe it doesn't even matter. I only hope that no person in love ever faces such a situation. Because that would be worse than never being in love at all...
When I found that Hrithik and Suzanne are living separate and may file for divorce, I could not believe it. How could a fairy-tale like romance like theirs end? Years earlier, I remember watching Suzanne talk about their relationship with such dreamy eyes, I thought this girl is head over heels in love with the guy in her life.
I started thinking why I was so affected by the news. Sure, I understand that relationships change over the years, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse, and sometimes just because change is what differentiates our past from the future. Love and loved ones are not an exception to this. Especially, in the case of extremely successful people, relationship dynamics are even more volatile...Then why did I not take the news casually? Was it because I believed Hrithik and Suzanne are an ideal couple? Nah...after all, what do I really know about them? Was I feeling insecure about my own relationship with Sharath because we also dated for soo long before getting married in a similar fashion? Even that's not the case...our life circumstances would have anything but a zero degree of correlation....I thought on, but could not find an answer to my slightly agitated state about the news...it stayed on with me sub-consciously...
As I came across this news again, it suddenly dawned upon me as to what was so unsettling about the news! It was Hrithik's statement in which he indicated that Suzanne was the only love of his life and will remain so even in the future. My perception of his statement is that even if both were responsible for the emotional void between the two, one had decided to branch off and have a life of their own. This was the reason why I did not treat their breakup as just another news.
So what does one do if after seventeen years of love, two kids and amazing memories with each other, you realize that you have irrevocably lost the partner with whom you had the best time of your life? If both the persons in the relationship have moved on to be different individuals, that's totally fine...But what if only one has moved on and left the other partner with haunting memories of the past, making it impossible to see a happy future? I would never know if this is what happened between Hrithik and Suzanne and maybe it doesn't even matter. I only hope that no person in love ever faces such a situation. Because that would be worse than never being in love at all...
