Religion and love

Another chapter on the difficulties of loving in this country. Waktre and his very nice girlfriend. He is hindu, she is muslim. To be married, one would have to renounce his religion, but both families are strongly against it. It is seen as a betrayal, and an interruption, of a familial tradition that was transmitted from their ancestors. They look very nice together, but now that he will have to go to work elsewhere, Waktre is not very hopeful about the future. It is very sad, I like them.

Of course, knowing how sensitive these religious matters are, I offered my contribution, a brilliant idea: they both convert to Catholicism. He didn’t think it would work.