In the labyrinth with two goddesses

Tired of being tormented by the goddess Aphrodite, a middle-aged man - let's just call him C - decides to swear love to Kali. The goddess accepts him as her devotee but says nothing to him.

Some time later he meets again an admirable woman that he desired in the past, whose name even now seems appropriate to omit - let's call her F. When approaching her again that poor man promises himself that he will not fall in love with the girl.

Before long, C is forced to admit to himself that he has broken his promise and betrayed the goddess of death. And to make matters worse, F said she can't or maybe she just doesn't want to love him.

Unhappy, insecure and vulnerable, one night C pathetically prays to Kali begging her to be merciful and devour his life. During the night, the goddess of death appears to him in a dream and tells him that she is very offended at having been betrayed and that in order to punish him she will keep him alive as long as he is not loved.

That same night, his beloved's heart is softened by the goddess of love. The next day, F looks for him and says that she is also in love with him. Upon learning that he is loved, C discovers that he has been left in a hopeless situation.

If C doesn't renounce the love he craved and won, Kali will fulfill her promise. With death, his unhappiness will come to an end. But in this case F, the woman he loves, will also become a collateral victim of the oath he had inadvertently taken when he came to hate the goddess of love.

Of course our tragicomic hero can disavow F's love. But in doing so Kali will keep him alive to suffer and see C eventually forget about him by falling in love with another guy.

The goddesses of love and the goddesses of death will not go to war over this tiny human tragedy. In the specific case of C, Aphrodite and Kali are manifestations of the same mystical phenomenon covered by the veil of Maya. No matter what that unfortunate man does or what happens, before he was born C was condemned to learn to laugh at himself in the labyrinth of ironies in which his life would be imprisoned. Unfortunately, he can only cry.