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Message to Youth

I learned about love from this story; I understood for the first time in my life the complications about the meaning of love and why it cannot mean just one thing.

Love is and cannot be defined ever; it has to be a set of all the emotions put together. I am sure Arjun would be with his Karishma very soon, I am sure she was waiting for him on the other side of the world, missing him as much as he was missing her. Now I understand why Arjun wanted to die, but God wanted him to live, so that his story can be told.

There is a message in Arjun’s book for the youth, that if you love, be faithful; don’t go for sex, go for love; love will last, sex will die; don’t run after lust, lust is temporary, love is permanent; lust is like form of a sportsman it could be temporary, but class is permanent; bird in hand is worth two in the bush, savour what you have otherwise that will not remain as well. It happened to Arjun, for some sexual pleasures, he lost Karishma, his love and suffered his entire life in agony.

The conditions have changed much more now as compared to when Arjun fell in love. Not having a boyfriend or a girlfriend is considered a taboo, not having sex before you graduate from college a crime. A lot of movies, international soaps are responsible in the westernization of the Indian culture. It’s not about being right or being wrong. It’s about not making the wrong decisions by being swayed away by lust and losing love. Many know that true love is generally found only once in life and that too only for a lucky few. So once you get it, one needs to take care of it rather than in adolescence and immaturity lose it.

Arjun lost it, I lost it and I know many who lost their love and spent their time repenting about them. When one is young and when many options are available, the true worth of love is not known, but when one is alone and in the solitude of life, spending time with loneliness, that’s when love comes back to the mind and heart to haunt the peace and harmony. But often it’s too late to realize what one has lost and it cannot be gained back again. Time and love wait for none, as was witnessed in this story. Love and lust makes one do crazy things, one gets flowed in the emotions of the moment, not realizing the results or consequences of the actions during those emotions.

If Arjun ever got an opportunity to turn back the hands of time, he would not have fallen for lust which would have destroyed his love and would have destroyed their life. How he would wish today that he had a prism in which he could have looked and seen his future and then taken correct actions. Would he have fallen for a sexual relationship with Reshma if he knew he would spend a better part of his life behind bars in isolation? Would Reshma have done the same if she knew that Karishma would lose her life to death, Arjun to prison and hers to drugs? Reshma spent her life repenting her action after losing two of her best friends.

Are some moments of orgasm so strong and important to lose all moments of life? The satisfaction of love and the emotional and spiritual orgasms that love delivers are much more powerful than a sexual orgasm. A sexual orgasm lasts only for a few moments, but a love orgasm lasts forever.

If life were perfect, Arjun and Karishma would have got married, Reshma would have found someone worthy of her, and the friends would have lived happily ever after. But there is nothing perfect about life. If there is one thing certain about life, it is its imperfection and its uncertainty and its ability to throw surprises and shocks when you least expect it. Karishma died, Arjun spent his life in prison and within a year of his release, he died too, Reshma died in the eyes of all who knew her. Arjun’s and Karishma’s parents were left to curse their fate and to live a life in which they will never be able to be happy again.

And then there was me, who was left to wonder about all these things and wonder whether my love story will ever be completed, whether I will ever have the guts to search for Susan, whether I would have the guts to face the reality of she being someone else, time will tell. One thing for sure is that I would not like to die without meeting Susan at least once and just telling her I still love her so much.

I complete my story, the love story of Arjun and Karishma and of the most interesting, unique and life changing case of my life.

About Susan, I just feel she is sitting right next to me and I could hug her tight and dissolve myself in her arms to forget all my tensions and problems. Her arms are not here for me, but the fragrance of her hug and the softness of her touch are still alive in my senses.

As I finish writing the last few words of the book, I hear an announcement “Flight EK504 to Dubai is ready to board.” Susan, here I come to fulfill the last wish of my brother.

This is detective Rahul, signing off with a message, Love One and Love Well.