“Only Love” – Erich Segal - I was reading this book and was inspired to write on it. A very touching love story – about love; lost & found.1978
A group of idealistic young doctors join a mission of mercy to Africa. Two of them, Mathew and Silvia, fall in love. They have one year together, before they are swept apart by bloodshed and violence. Mathew Hiller has been in mourning ever since.
The Present
A pioneer in genetic therapy at the very top of his field, Mathew is appealed to by a rich man whose wife’s brain tumor has been declared inoperable by every other surgeon. When she walks through the door he sees that it is Silvia, as beautiful as ever – still his “only love”. It’s as if the years have never passed.
He must save her life. And if he does... what then?
I am sure everybody in life has their own first love and it is indeed very special. Few of the lucky lot, are fortunate enough to spend the rest of their lives with them. But rest of them; need to move on with life and hence at some point or the other need to settle down and get married. They too lead a happy life with their better half.
But what happens, if you get to meet your first love once again? And even worse, you get to know that your first love shares the same feelings for you; even now; as you do?
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
- Otomo No Yakamochi
