WANTING TO HAVE THE CAKE AND EAT IT TOO

Handsome person, celebrity author, central minister, former UN honcho, global citizen,  richie rich, intellectual and above all orator par excellence.  Really he is everything rolled into one. Very rarely could we see such a personality. For ordinary mortals, he is such an enviable proposition. And then, he adds a trophy wife, a vivacious beauty of Kashmiri origin (the Kashmiri penchant is strong, for his first wife was half Kashmiri).  A person of her own mite, who had seen enough, dealt with many powers that be, a true global socialite whose presence every man worth his salt would cherish.

And they were supposed to live happily ever after.

And that is not be! His troubles started with that. He lost his minister-ship, People of his own party started plotting against him but he had enough ampere to regain the lost glory to come back as a minister. She lost the sweat equity from Rendezvous consortium. Once the passion of the marriage was over, fissures developed. She suspected his roving eye, for him a ‘thing of beauty is a joy forever’. He not only wanted physical companionship but intellectual companionship too.  Probably she couldn’t have given the latter. When he got caught in intellectual companionship with beautiful women, she was distressed. To add to that she had this secret illness, something so bad,  that could damage her long term.  It looks like she never trusted him with beautiful mature women. She went into depression, physical exhaustion and created enough tantrums in the social media, did her bit of interviews with the press and then, she is gone, forever, to nether world, never to return!

The inquest and the autopsy say it is ‘sudden unnatural death’. He is devastated. The media is now going all over with so many theories and rumours. The opposition is clamoring for his ouster from the cabinet. Things aren’t looking good for him.

It is noticed that people who are writers, artists, intellectuals etc., there is a maverick aspect that becomes very pronounced in their behavior and often that also becomes their Achilles heel. Is there anything like that in him? Is it the roving eye? Or is it the need intellectual companionship with beautiful mature women? Or is it both put together?

Washing dirty linen in public isn’t the right thing, we all know. But today, Social media enables that on a very high degree. One of the causes that accentuated the distress and the depression in her is the social media. How many more celebrity lives will the Twitters and the Facebook take further? We will wait and see.

For him, it is time to take stock. For a public figure, a politician and central minister, certain discretion is a must. Too much of transparency and the naivety displayed in emails and twitter must be regulated (remember the ‘cattle class’ tweet!).  And before tying the knot again, he need to decide what types of companionship is needed for him.

Because he has to realize, ‘you can’t have  the cake and eat it too’.