Have you ever faced a dilemma over whether to tell something to someone for their benefit but at the cost of your friendship with them?
Here's a short story, to which I do not have an answer at the moment:
Disclaimer: It can be false for all I know.
I - yes this story will be told in the first person as it was actually told to me - have a friend who lives in Australia as of now. We have been very good friends and still continue to be in touch via mails, however, as with every other thing in life, out of sight- out of mind, also applies to the case in question. My friend has been to Australia for over 3 years now, first for studies and now a permanent resident and well settled there. Now when you are good friends to someone, you actually get to know very many things about them. An year after she had left for Australia, just out of curiosity, I thought of hacking her email account. By all means, it was just meant to be a joke of sorts so that she could be surprised at a later time.
The email accounts, for all that they claim to be hack-proof, are actually easy to break if you know a person well. This also proved to be one heck of an easy job, with me getting into the account without much problem.
And once I was there, it was like opening a Pandora's box. People live half their lives out of emails, so once you get to someone's emails, you see them stark naked.
For all I knew, she was going around with a guy while in India however, I was kept off the name of that guy and I never met him. I was told that I will see him at an appropriate time. And was it the appropriate time now???
She loved a guy who is currently out on bail for the dowry-death of his wife. I know this as he lives in the same city as I. He got married while my friend was in Australia and she is not even aware of what conspired in India while she was away. Through the emails, I came to know that this guy has not told her anything about his marriage and then the death of his wife!! He was still pretending to be her lover and she has also sent money to him India and was planning to get him to Australia by sponsoring him.
The dilemma that I confront: to tell her about this or not.
Any comments and suggestions welcome.
- Sarjan
- Sarjan (root: Sanskrit, meaning: creation) is about co-creating our world while keeping environment and sustainable lifestyle at the center of what we do. It is about mainstreaming what is considered alternative, like going back to the future. It is about being inspired and inspiring each other. It’s about the magic that can happen through small changes. Like the flap of butterfly wings Sarjan strives to bring about small but mindful changes. Sarjan is aware that the world we operate in is imperfect and we are not promising a perfect world but just trying to mindfully co-create the future. The boundaries of what is natural, organic or synthetic are blurred in the current world. We strive to lift the haze from some of these things and bring forth a clear view. With so many disruptions and in the cacophony of hundreds of advertisements each day we tend to lose track and even though personally we want to do what is best for our family and the world the clarity eludes us. Sarjan is about bringing back a bit of clarity.
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