Disclaimer: I give credit for this blog to a very close and dear friend of mine, who keeps on coming with crazy ideas and thoughts. This is my attempt to give shape to one of his thoughts. I thank him for sparking off these chain of thoughts in me and make me think a lot, which results into this blog. Also this blog is not to hurt anyone’s sentiments or feelings, it is an expression of my thoughts.
A phone ring, gets Karan out of his love affair with his computer screen. It’s his wife Shruti calling, which tells him he better start for home. At 24, Karan is a very successful investment banker. Very happy and content with his life, he has no regrets. Karan is a genuine person, a good human being. His friends mean lot to him, n he means a lot to them. He can withstand any problem in life, but can’t stand his friends being in any sort of problem. Is always there for them, and sees to that he does whatever he can to help them out. He is a gem of a person.
Karan and Shruti are married for a year now. But their love is 3 years old, and ever growing. They were the best of friends, buddies, until they realised they mean so much to each other, that can’t live without each other. They are perfect for each other. She understands his work, his love for the arts, and his jolly, crazy nature. And he understands the same things in her, and all the things which make her a little girl sometimes. In short they are perfect for each other, soulmates. They understand each other so well, that not once there have been any misunderstandings.
He picks up the call. Shruti reminds him, that he has to meet one of his very close friend, Pooja. Karan and Pooja have been friends since college. Very good friends, seen life’s ups and downs together. Pooja now works in the media field, is a successful producer. She always seeks Karan’s advice for new ideas for her shows, due to his theatre background.
Pooja is a lovely person. Very friendly, caring, happy, knows her job, will never hurt anyone. But still has no luck in finding Mr. Right. Whenever she is low, or life is just not kind on her, Karan and Shruti are always there for her. So the three of them share a very unique bond.
Karan leaves his office, and meets Pooja in a coffee shop. They discuss about the upcoming show produced by Pooja, and other things. But during the whole conversation Pooja is kind of lost, not speaking much as she usually does. Karan, immediately senses that there is something wrong. He asks her, what the problem is. She tries to avoid the subject, by changing the topic. But Karan is persistent. Then she says, that it’s the work load. But Karan is not satisfied with the answer. He takes her out on a walk.
10 minutes pass, she doesn’t speak a word. And then all of a sudden starts crying. Karan hugs her and makes her calm down. Then she starts telling him what the matter is. She tells him that how lonely she has been feeling lately. How all the guys she’s been meeting are turning out to be jerks. She explains to him that how she spends lonely nights, in her apartments, staring out of the window, wondering when will she find the right guy, when will she be in a meaningful relationship, when will she have the perfect kiss, when will she be loved?
Karan consoles her, buy saying that the right guy is out there, they just need to find each other. Pooja is not satisfied with that answer, but manages to calm herself down. She remains quite for 5 minutes. Then asks Karan for a favour. He says whatever he can do to make her feel better he will do it.
But he is not expecting what Pooja is about to ask him.
After lot of stammering and clearing the throat, Pooja summons the courage to ask him. She tells him that she still is a virgin and never has experienced what it is to be like, to be loved by a man. She explains to him that, she is not trying to cover up her depression by having sex, but genuinely wants to experience the emotion, the feelings, the excitement, the passion of making love. She asks him, genuinely and with all her innocence, to make love to her, to make her understand, feel what love and love making is.
Karan is in a shock after hearing this. But recovers from it pretty fast. He knows Pooja very well, and understands that she is not just looking to sleep around, but really wants to experience love, which is a wonderful emotion, and comes naturally to all human beings. And it’s her right to experience that. Nothing wrong to experience love making. It is the one of the most natural and beautiful thing. He very well understands that Pooja is not of a loose character, just looking out to have emotionless sex.
He registers all this, and being such a good friend and an amazing person doesn’t freak out on her. He says to himself that, Pooja is his friend, and is in trouble and needs his help. But at the same time, at the back of his mind he thinks of his wife, Shruti. He thinks about her, how will she react to this, will she understand all this.
Pooja reads Karan’s face and understands his dilemma. She tells him not to bother himself, she just wanted to get it out of her system, and already knew what his answer would be. And moreover she wouldn’t do anything, that would jeopardise, Karan and Shruti’s relation. She tells him not to think much on this, go home to his wife, and forget about this. She will be fine, just wanted to talk this out with him.
Karan doesn’t know what to say. He just hugs her and drops her home. On the way back to his home, he is constantly thinking about this, and is very much disturbed. He reaches home. The moment Shruti opens the door, she comes to know something is wrong with him. She makes him coffee and they sit down and talk. He tells her everything, every word that Pooja said.
Now I won’t complete this blog, because seriously I don’t know the end to this story. I want u guys, the readers to help me out.
Tell me is Pooja wrong in wanting to experience sex? Or is there a difference in sex and love making. I think they are one and the same. Sex or love making is one of the most beautiful emotions, humans can have and feel. It is natural, nature made us like this.
Do you think Karan will make love to Pooja, because she is his very good friend, and is in need of help, is in need of a friend. Is it right of Karan to think that, it is helping his friend so he should go ahead with it?
Shruti, who is such an amazing person, will she understand Pooja’s feelings, and what she is going through. Will she have so much faith in her husband, that she knows, whatever he will do, it will be right and for the good?
Say Shruti is supportive of her husband, Pooja and the situation and Karan goes ahead with it, will the relation between Shruti and Karan, Shruti and Pooja, Karan and Pooja, be the same as before?
I am seriously not able to make out who is right or wrong here? Is Pooja wrong in wanting to experience a natural emotion? Is Karan wrong, in going ahead with it, when he is married or is he right in wanting to help his dear friend? And is Shruti right or wrong in supporting or not supporting her husband, her love, her friend Pooja and the situation?
It is just unimaginable, how one will react to this situation. What will it be like to be in Pooja, Karan or Shruti’s place?
So many questions remain unanswered or they are best left unanswered, I don’t know. Is sex so “OVERRATED” for us, or the society has just made it like that. Why is it always related with a dark side or treated like taboo. Can’t it be a human emotion, a way of expressing love. Is love to be just expressed in words?
I am waiting for all these answers. Don’t know when they will be answered, till then the quest continues.
Cheers,
Kartik.
