... but I don't need love to live!

I saw the Lord of the Rings musical tonight and I'm left wondering what people were talking about. I'm a little peeved with people for being so negative. Perhaps it's because it's a Toronto-based production, perhaps it's because they're comparing it to the movies, perhaps it's just because they like to whinge but people have been overly critical of the musical. I admit that there were some things that could be improved, some aspects of it that were hard to swallow. But overall, they did something I wouldn't've thought possible - compress a 1000+ page book and a 10+ hour trilogy into 3.5 h. The sets were amazing, the whole stage was a whirlwind of activity and the scenes flowed seamlessly from one to the other.

On my way back home, I had a chat with my friend about love. It's funny how we understand each other. She commented on how she wondered if she would ever fall in love again and that she was okay with that. We both have something to compensate for the lack of love in our lives, she has her not-boyfriend who is crazy about her but she not-so-much about him; I have my support network that feeds my need to be with others. To be quite honest, I have been told by a lot to compromise, for experience, for the sake of trying it out. But why should I? If I were going to do that, why wouldn't I just give in to my mum and marry someone of her liking? But no! I will go through life and if I find the love of my life, great! But if I don't, then I'm okay with that too.

No culture can be more obsessed with love than the Indian culture. In Hindi, there are at least 5-6 different degrees of love, from liking someone to the most extreme being majnoon, where one loses all sense of self and goes utterly crazy for his/her lover with one sole goal: acquiring the love of that person and pleasing them. Now perhaps the love I want shouldn't be so extreme or scary but I would hope that it would be towards the upper end of that scale ;)


Love me for stupid reasons
I like those most