NOT FOR LOVE: Chosen First. Loved Most? (The Choices We Make Series)
About
She chose her husband over her father.
Karan should have felt fortunate.
After all, he had been chosen first.
But one question refused to leave him:
Did Ruhi choose him because she loved him most?
Years earlier, Ruhi’s family had been haunted by a simple question:
If you could save only one person, whom would you choose?
Her father, Arjun, had answered it at different stages of life—as a son, a husband, a father and eventually a grandfather. Each answer changed as the relationships around him changed.
Then the question reached Ruhi.
Asked to choose between her father and her husband, she chose Karan.
But being chosen did not give Karan the certainty he expected.
As life moves forward through ageing parents, marriage, children, responsibility, distance and loss, Karan begins to understand that the person we choose first may not always be the person we love most.
Sometimes we choose because of love.
Sometimes because of duty.
Sometimes because someone needs us more.
Sometimes because of a promise.
Sometimes because the person we leave behind is the person we trust most to understand.
And sometimes, even we may not fully understand why.
NOT FOR LOVE is a reflective companion short story to ONLY ONE.
It asks a different question:
If someone chooses you first, does it really mean you are loved most?
A quiet, thought-provoking story about marriage, parents, children, responsibility and the complicated reasons behind the choices we make.