Week Six: Marriage of a Thousand Lies

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Family can be a great source of joy and support, but when you do not have a good family by your side you can get easily lost. I have had the good fortune of growing up in a supportive household complete with both parents. This is often not the case. Your family is so important to the growth of young people.
Sometimes children do not end up sharing the views and beliefs of their parents. After all, a person should believe what they do because they truly believe it, not because their parents tell them to. But, children often still want to please their parents even if they don’t share every view. I think this was at the center of the story in Marriage of a Thousand Lies.
When Lucky and Krishna get married they see it as a way to please themselves and their families. I don’t really think it was a good way to solve their “problem.” Only pretending to agree with your family is not honest and it is not a way to have a good strong relationship. Maybe being honest with their families would have been the best way to go about it.
The other point in this story was how we can see how “wrong” something is when someone else does it, even when we do see it in ourselves. Sometimes, that is hypocritical of us but sometimes seeing someone else do something makes us realize the significance of the actions. Lucky tries to save Nisha from repeating the mistake of marrying to please family. Even though Lucky did it, she tries to save Nisha from suffering her same fate. It can be a great lesson to us to see ourselves mirrored in the decisions of someone else.

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