Once upon a time, not too long ago, there were two kids in a hostel, guru and sharma. They were pretty good friends, they’d always be found hanging around, sharing a good laugh, eating ice creams. Everything was going great, until one day when guru had a problem, his problem might seem silly to the reader, but the reader must note, guru was just a small kid, little did he know, he had diarrhea. Guru has no control over it, he thought he was possessed by an evil under the banyan tree because he pelted stones at it, and that if he told someone about it, people would stop being his friend, and avoid him because he was dirty and smelled bad.
Sometimes when, guru and his friends were playing some sport, guru would suddenly run away, no one understood why the usual jocund guru was doing this. All his friends were concerned, but they couldnt guess what was going on. Of them all, the most worried was sharma, sharma noted that guru was not being the usual with him or others, and it bothered him, he seemed to know that guru had some problem. He wondered if it was he himself who said or did something that troubled guru in someway. But he did not know. So one day, he managed to catch guru just in time, before he could run away, made him sit and asked, as to what was going on with guru, and why he seemed to avoid sharma.
How could he lie to sharma? but he did, he did it in best interests of the sharma, for he thought, if he told sharma about his problem, the banyan evil would have sharma too. He lied to him, with a plastic smile, telling him that everything was alright and he should stop worrying. But sharma knew guru was lying, they say love can tell between truth and lies. He only grew more concerned, he assumed it was because of him that guru was acting this way, or there would be no other reason to lie to him. He too smiled, wrapped his arm around him, sat beside him for a while and then left to leave guru alone. The next time he met guru, he bought him a costly chocolate as compensation for something he didnt understand, but thought he did wrong to guru. Guru liked sharma very much for it, he in return bought him many more chocolates as he was guilty of lying to a good friend who was merely trying to make him happy.
Gurus problem however only got worse with time, more so because he felt alone and left out, he stopped eating, he thought it helped him, but it drew more attention from his fellow friends, he didnt want which, their concerns to him meant as an undeserved affection, that he chose to discard, for he didnt want them to be cursed too, and by now he also began to believe that none of his friends could help him in anyway, The evil had a judgment of its own, and nothing good he did would please the devil. He convinced himself that, this was how it would be, forever. Thus, to an unexplainable unforgiving torture, he surrendered.
Sharma, was helpless. he would at times, give guru a warm hug, he would force guru to eat for his sake, but nothing he did changed guru, soon the lie of everything being okay, was an open secret, each knew the other was lying, it upset them both, but none gave in. They would still talk to each other, as though all was well, as if the lie wounds have healed. It was love, in which they pardoned each other.
Guru continues to suffer, and hence Sharma.
Love is a nice nurse. But the doctor is rationality.
What should I say… I empathize with you in a way