What does a woman want?
Everything happens for the first time.
Let me tell you a story that somehow personifies what women wants. Don't expect any magic or a potion that somehow you will engulf and be that Oh-So-Charming womanizer. It's a story that I heard over a mug of beer and somehow stayed with me even when the alcohol drained away from my blood.
Once upon a time when the world was ruled by the iron fist of a knight, there came a legend called king Arthur. In a battle king Arthur was defeated and was captured by King Solomon's army. The rule of the land was, a defeated king is as good as a dead wish. Before putting king Arthur to gallows, King Solomon gave him a choice; “Answer me one question correctly and if you can answer that I'll set you free give you back your kingdom”. King Arthur asked him the question that will eventually decide the fate of his people. King Solomon said, “ What does a woman want?” That's a pretty simply stuff for a person who is a King.
King Arthur said, “A woman wants money ,a woman wants to be proud of her man,a woman wants to feel successful”. King Solomon told king Arthur “I'll give you a year and then come back with the answer”. King Arthur went back to his kingdom to find a simple answer, an answer that foxes the very soul-mind-brain of a man even in the age of abundance. King Arthur gathered the noblest men and put forward the same question only to face confused looks and even more fuddled answer. As time went by, king Arthur became restless for the answer that eludes everyone. He came across a elderly lady with a hump in her back. Everyone around said if anyone could answer this, it will be her. King Arthur went to the elderly lady and asked “What women want?”. The lady replied, I'll answer you provided you marry me with the most eligible bachelor of the kingdom. The most eligible bachelor turned out to be king Arthur best friend. The King decided that, its better to die that to ruin the life of his friend. After much coaxing, the king finally agreed to give his the answer in return for his friend's hand. The elderly lady answered, “What a woman want is to take control of her life”. The elderly lady got married to King Arthur's friend. At the wedding night when his friend came for bed, he saw a beautiful princess waiting for her in bed, the old crooked lady was no where to be seen. The princess said to him, “Because you have been honest with me I'll give you two options; either you see me old at night and as a princess in the morning or as a princess at night and an old lady during day time.”
Had you been there what would have been your choice?
King Arthur's friend answered, “As you too have been true with me, I want you to decide what time you want to be a princess and what time you want to be an old lady”. The princess was so charmed by his reply and his honesty she stayed as a princess. Taking a cue from the story if we try to fit in our lives, somehow somewhere we all utter the words “I wish...” Every melodrama of the day is a matter of rejoice for tomorrow. Even when you are honest with someone and start building up expectations... nature has a crude way of grounding. We are only left with one question, “Why why and only why...” Socrates once said, “A person who can answer five whys at a go is God.” Over the period of time we forget that the only thing constant in life is “change”, all of a sudden the love flies off and we are only left with a mortal greed of gaining back that person. Do we ever ponder at what cost? Do we ever think that everything is not meant to happen. Aha!! I know the thoughts visiting your mind “If we have to lie on the laps of destiny then why try for anything”. My dear friend ask me how it feels, where it pains. But never clapper-claw anyone just because she was like that. I know its tough, in front of mirror when you stand alone you should always be able to look at your own eyes and be proud of that. How many of us can do that. You may be gulled, try a genuine effort to smile and say “ It's Ok”. Good things always happen to good people, is a thing better said than done. Like ways, marriages are made in heaven so are lightning and thunderstorm. Have faith in yourself so that someday you can smile over it rather than cry over something that you tried so hard but you couldn't make it.
Everything happens for the first time.
Everything happens for the last time also.
Stay foolish.
Stay hungry.
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for the people who say and still believe that 'Good things always happen to good people'
ReplyDelete1) dont expect that a bull wont charge u becoz u r a veggie...
2) good things happens this idiot samiran
two proofs that it is not right now.
read this story and since it is not ur own story so nothing much left to say.
samiran....im nt pullling ur leg rigt nw.... but im at a loss of words.... incredible, amazing, spellbinding are all words that fall short to describe ur blog..... if i might say humbly ... but this is by far the bst of ur work tht ive read... primarily with a definitive shift i see in ur writing style and perhaps choice of article... the first to wrds the human side...
ReplyDeletei really liked ur king aurthur story....while i wud restrain frm commenting on the stiry ,.. which btw i really loved... id focus on ur latter part of the blog... the analogy to our lives....a very sound reasoning that u have put.... tht hw nd why we need to jus let go of things.... hw we can jus say its ok....nd move on in life....
in my walk if life.. ive seen tht ppl are of two kinds .. one who are motivated by their materialistic ad social gains and greed and look at hw to save situations, falsely boosting their ego and trying to be in control of everyhting, the fulcrum of all the actions and reactions.
and at the same time, there are people who are super cool, who are above the normal human emotions of hatred anger rejection contempt and dissappointment.... they pretend to be the ones who have just moved on and are ok about everyhting...
but at the end of the day it doesn't really matter, who we pretend to be.. whether we try to epitomize greatness be thy name or whther we are egoists who justify everything... at the end of the day it is the human emotions that w have to get over with ... the hurt, the pain.... either of the ways.... a person has to realize that what we run away by disguising ourselves ina agrb of greatness or machismo.. the hurtstays...
one has to come to terms to accept tht its nt wrong to cry or to hate a person whom u loved .... or the bitter acrimony..... eventually these are all parts of the cycle of human emotion that one has to go thru.. nd ppl have to realize tht after u fall out of love and one person walks out of a relationship... there is bound to be a phase of intense love and a phase of intense atred... but then i guess u get over it when the said person bcoms a point of indeifferencee....
i sumhw beleive tht ppl dnt realize tht the greatest love is self love .....
sam i thinks ths comment has gone a bit too far... but this is jus wht came i my mind....\
uve done a gr8 job.... it has made me think after a long time.... and i really liked ur work... really appreciate it...
Hey Sam
ReplyDeleteAlways being honest is not always the best policy. You have to be proactive here and understand the woman you are with.
Although this is an amazing story with a lot of hidden truths, but the fact is u need to be tactful to earn a woman's heart.
hey Sam!
ReplyDeleteas always, it's a great piece of work that has been crafted beautifully by the master craftsman. i really like the way u introduce the subject, creating interest in the minds of the readers. i definitely agree with priungkush abt ur shift towards the human emotions. i m bound to think wat's made ur thoughts turn frm concocting radical thoughts to such sentimental ones! do i smell something???
if u smellll....llllll wath The Sam is cookin'
I must say you've got the most enviable fan following. This article/post was posted a day back and already 4 comments. My My!!
ReplyDeleteMoving on to serious things. I'd agree with priungkush when he said that this is probably your best post so far. A compelling read it surely is and the fact that you wrote it in 20 minutes flat talks volumes about you.Kudos bro!!
I could somehow relate it to your bamboo post.I'd disagree with voice and I would certainly say that 'Good things always happen to good people'. It is our vision that clouds our outlook. The mirror thing that you mentioned is what i've been trying since long back and i'm always miserably disappointed in myself, but nevertheless i try. Faith..rightly mentioned is what spurs one on.
Since this is a work of fiction i'd rather not comment(Just kidding-what do you expect of me after i've written this much),had it been a fact,it surely would have been crushing.Still i wouldn't ask you where and how much it pains but what balm you are using.
Philosopher hoye gechis to......rest of us feel like lesser mortals...hehe.....nywayz jokes apart.....loved readin it
ReplyDeletewell said dude!!
ReplyDeletekeep up da good work..
walkin wid u as always :D
True to every word of it. author is a fast thinker and has a genuine understanding of ladies' mentality.
ReplyDeleteKudos for attempting to write on such a topic which very few people have an authority on! Without doubt, you're one of the luckier ones.
ReplyDeleteI liked the last lines
ReplyDeleteEverything happens for the first time.
Everything happens for the last time also.
Stay foolish.
Stay hungry.
But its too philosophical.I think this Why ?? is the key to every success.If we dont question Why ?? we are stagnant
Very very nice stor n the way u wrote that BUT m still not very much happy with ans ..
ReplyDeletekinda strange for me ...
What does a woman want ?
well its not that difficult ..all u hav to do is ask this Q to women of diff ages ..situations :)
:))
hi! it's an old legend retold in a slightly different manner..i read this in Chaucer's Wife of bath"..the story remains much the same..but it's not king arthur himself but one of his knights who has to go looking for the answer
ReplyDeleteBut most importantly, the moral of the story comes out to be that the thing that women want most is soveriegnity over men! on second reading of the story, u'll realize that it's not abt honesty but abt letting the women take the decisions for themselves...
and i dare say chaucer was bang on!!;)
awesome! ^:)^
ReplyDeleteSuch a delightful read!
ReplyDeleteAt the end of the day, its not the friends it not the people. You got to have a clear concience when you hit the sack. Alas! in our lives we got to make a call. We got to make choices.
btw, u don't look 251 years old! ;p
ReplyDeletei know the answer to the quetion uve posed in one word....
ReplyDeleteq: what does a woman want?
a: samiran..... :-) ;-)
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