Why should the river always flow towards the Ocean? Is it just out of love, obsession or devotion?
It has often been suggested by my dear friend HariOm about the devotional obsessive behaviour of River which drives her to go and dissolve in the Ocean. Here is his couplet: "ऐसा भी क्या दीवानापन ऐसा भी क्या प्यार नदी, सागर से मिलने जाती है तू ही क्यों हर बार नदी ?" This often made me wonder the emotions behind depicting this as thoughtless one side obsession of river, which consists of pristine, pure, soft water - to drift and submerge in the vast ocean, which is wild, salty, destructive, immense, unimaginably different and rough. Well, I figured it out, that it's just a figment of human imagination, and we obviously ignore the real basis of this process. It's not love, it higher than that. It's creation. It's about making sure everything functions. And even though it looks like a mere one-sided journey, ocean play's its fair role in creating, strengthening and charting the very path of the river. The...