Will She ? Won't She?!!

Will She ? Won’t She ?!!

                                                                                       By Dinesh K Kapila

Now I am going off on a tangent here. I maybe in all probability drawing a parallel here which has been playing out in my mind. Let’s see where it goes. Many a Hollywood Movie has a suitor proposing with the scene including the mandatory going down on one knee (by the proposor) and the lady proposed to (the proposee) saying after a breathless pause “not yet”. Please do note and observe, she does not say a definitive No, it’s always a not yet or we have to got to know each other more while the suitor slowly lets is sink in, sometimes still on his knee. Then the suitor (the proposor) has to prove himself and his love all over again and all this in more and different ways. The movie or more accurately most such movies may actually revolve around our finding out ultimately whether she says yes or is still not convinced, so as I say “will she, won’t she”.

Another version, well  we have the rare Hollywood Movie which has them (proposor and proposee) fall in love, get married and then they move apart only to reunite after a lot of discovering themselves and each other by a process of lot’s of inane dialogues and philosophical outpourings.  Then there is the  even more rare one where the “proposee” takes too long to clarify her stand or to understand herself (one wonders what she was doing all these years) and misses out with a tinge of regret as the “proposor” meanwhile  finds another soul mate and decides to be loyal to her only.  

You, Sir or Madam, cannot challenge my findings, staying alone the past few years, the channel Romedy Now and a few more have been most educative and entertaining. I have to say educative and not just entertaining as it then implies I am on a sort of a learning curve here, which always satisfies a certain section which always has to find multiple layers of meaning in a movie. I simply say, there is nothing like a Love Story, light on the touch, tugging just the right bit at the heart with a conducive background score to pass some time by. A bit of nectar being imbibed alongside only adds to the flavour.

But I digress.  I have been thinking of the situation, politically speaking, in the State I am assigned to currently.  The “will she, won’t she” analogy fits in so appropriately. The lady has the suitor on a hop and a hop, she at the centre as the suitor circles around devotedly. Infact the suitor seems to be amazingly steadfast, waiting and apparently hoping it proves his sincerity and suitability or maybe compatibility.  Remember the old song by Lobo, “I will be waiting at the end of the line”, that’s the apparently predominant flavour to indicate their commitment.

Since the last over two months or so, this has been the prime occupation of most of us neutral observers staying here, we watch the interesting and absorbing by play and whatever be the argument, it ultimately comes down to what I have summarised, it’s just debating the million dollar question, “will she ? Won’t she? !!”.  We now only wait to see where all the soul searching and the ongoing process of self discovery and deciding what it needs to prove commitment takes the “proposor” and “proposee” to.  I suppose in a few days we will know for certain if we have a positive or negative outcome or the process of proving oneself will continue. Love Stories, as I know now, need not always lead to a positive heart warming outcome.  This one, well the jury is out on it as of now, but then one never knows.

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