two guys one gal

This is perhaps one of the oldest paradoxes and the most debated and fought over.

In societies this is the one of the basis of life. Males fight it out among themselves for the female.

Today's society had only served to make this struggle more sophisticated. Guys fight over the gal in all walks of life, from better jobs to better lifestyle, from better gifts to the most expensive gifts, from the strutting to the swaggers he does it all. He does anything to attract her attention and goes to great lengths to please her and have her favors.

What he does is no different than muscling the other males out in some way or the other. But what if the two males are friends and very good ones at that? This sees many interesting results. Where one guy gives up the girl for the friend putting comradeship and love for both of them ahead of his love for the gal we have at the opposition to this where the guys turn into foes.

But this all leads to an inescapable fact that only one of them can have the girl. This is the paradox of today's world. She can be a friend to one and be the wife to the other.

Selfish as it may sound and self centred this probably leads to a more stable social structure and a closer knit family structure in today's world.

But when the one woman you loved betrays the guy after all the promises imagine what goes through the psyche of the man. Traditionally it was always the woman who was supposed to be the weaker in matters of the heart but today it seems the situation has changed slowly and subtly where masochism has replaced the laconic outlook of the man which sees so many men who have evolved in to the modern versions of "devdas" what we call charras.