When family demand clashes with the emotional world of the child, their laughter tripped up by rules, shadowed by opinions, marred by rage or blocked by apathy.
Criticism is aplenty when the need is for quiet support. Rage arises in short shrift when the need is for quiet understanding.
Trust vanishes. Family loses promise.
Slow realisation dawns.
Love is nowhere.
Yet, love may take kindly charge, as with Rajan and Sona. It may seem sharp of eye and tongue as Chanda has noticed, or faraway and mild as Ankush experiences.
Love moulds itself to hear the unspoken, to clarify the unclear and lay closed thoughts in the open. Honest conversation and laughter rule. Family holds promise.
Love is in process, in outcome.
Love is everywhere.