Sailaja Yeddanapudi
The sacrosanct character of flirting has always been undermined. Flirting is the vestiture of marriage. Has anyone wondered how this innocent and innocuous image of flirting has been tarnished?? I am not tendentious towards flirting but I am hurt by the impunity of its wrong doers. Whenever the seasons of marriage change, the flirting vestiture also undergoes a metamorphosis. With this God fatherly stature, I am pained when the society instead of venerating it lampoons it. When shopping, watching movies, hanging around with friends are good stress busters why can't flirting be attributed a similar status?? The sterile weak society is a mute spectator instead of playing an active role in upholding its sanctity. What is disturbing is the narrative that follows.
Many a time when one's marriage is on the rocks, only flirting can come to its rescue. It throws ample light on those dark alleys of marriage, assuming the position of a pedagogue. Being such a sound mentor, the mentor-mentee relationship needs to be maintained, and due respect should be given to the mentor. We fail to give it a quarter as we experience a maelstrom of emotions. No doubt I am touching a raw nerve of the society but it's time to break free from the shackles of society and not kowtow to it. How long can we bear shoepidity ????
