In the war of love and self respect, love always wins. At least the few cases i have seen in my life, it gave the same result. And it again happened yesterday.
I along with my friend went to my brother's house yesterday to spend Sunday. There is a girl, sweet, innocent, so-so by looks, who was preparing Luchi-Mangsho for us. I have seen her many times before with my brother, whenever i ask him about their relationship, he always said that there is nothing serious.
I don’t know what happened yesterday to me and my friend; we suddenly decided to make some relationship clear. We have made this in past also when we feel that either one of them is not understanding the value of other. In this case we realized that my brother is not feeling the importance of her presence in his life. We moved to a conversation thinking that we can make him realize his true feelings about the girl and they will be in a 'committed' relationship.
We had a little chat with the girl and then attacked my brother with lots of why-s and how-s and when-s. He somehow got puzzled, we helped him to come out from the puzzle and take a decision. That was the toughest moment for us to face. My brother said after a 2 long hr discussion that he has no feelings for the girl. The girl was sitting just in front of him. She was weeping. And then left silently.
We became silent. I was feeling that the surrounding temperature gone bit high and no-one can become free. My brother started listening sad songs and the girl was weeping at her window. We don’t know how to handle this situation. But the thing we were realizing that after saying 'No' to the girl my brother is missing her terribly. Then we plan to go out for dinner. My friend and I was discussing that if the girl can hold herself apart for at least 2 days, my brother will be able to understand her importance in his life. But there came the twist.
We reached a restaurant to have dinner in the evening. i said my brother to invite her also. She gladly accepted the invitation. She came and herself said sorry to my brother I don’t know why. She said she cannot stay apart from him in spite of knowing that there is no feeling for her. It was unexpected for me as well as my friend. At least we thought that the girl can fight with her self respect for two days at least. She could not. The feelings, that was growing in my brothers mind stopped at that moment. We had dinner. Then returned home. A known thing i realized again that in the war of love and self respect, love always wins. No matter how much self respect got hurt.