Tainted 'Love'!

On the one hand it makes stronger and helps realize the value of (being in) a relationship, yet on the other, is the most distressing, gut-wrenching crime against someone (committed, perhaps most frequently). Comes as little surprise though, that it is for the ill-giving of a heartbreak that it has forever been known - the gravest of all sins, inflicting the deepest of wounds; and not for having taught us lessons otherwise 'un'learnt.

Much has been talked, learnt and felt about love and its vagaries throughout civilization, and it still remains the most baffling yet engaging of all human emotions that - a 'single' heart craves for, a 'singled' heart pines for and a 'broken' heart grieves for. Hate it as we may, but heartbreak sure compels one to go over and over memories, and fantasize, quite ironically, reliving the moments of yore, only making him feel worse. 

And in this age when sincerity and candor are as much non-existent as chastity and morality were in the last, infidelity remains the single most important element for heartbreak. But what constitutes being unfaithful, and more importantly, what is loyalty? Subjective at the helm, it varies from person to person, and context to context; resting heavily on the lines drawn and what constitutes transgressing them. Here is the man who confesses sleeping around with several women, and the woman who professes eternal love to her partner, yet has several affairs behind his back. Who is better? Or worse? Or who would you choose over the other? Or would you choose at all? (We love to judge, don't we?) Are our moral bindings so admissive, that if provided an opportunity and presented a circumstance, we allow for such contraventions, turn a blind eye and pretend they do not exist? Yet, as we do, time and again we hear of the rare suicide and the more common chronic depression afflicting the youth at large, mostly resulting from a heartbreak. 

P.S.: Discontinuous, discordant and the more irritating post scriptum. Happy reading!