Duryodhana

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What can cause a child to go astray?

In his place, if you were the one who was considered a bad omen at birth, always feared by everyone around you, never got any attention or respect that you deserved just because of the so-called bad signs at your birth, wouldn't you have gone down the wrong path?

A child is a child, no matter how they were born or who they were born to. At the end of the day, a child is just a boon from the gods, ready to grace the world with their smile.

He never got any. Except for his parents, his brothers, his uncle, his wife, and his close friends, no one smiled at him. They kept their heads down, holding their breath, hoping he wouldn't talk to them.

You tell me, dear reader, you tell me. Wouldn't that have shattered your heart? Wouldn't that have cracked your soul? Wouldn't that break you? Death would be a small mercy to relieve you of all that pain.

But he never seeked death. He always yearned for acceptance. He kept fighting his whole life, to have someone tell him they were proud of him and mean it, to be smiled at, to just belong.

Despite being born from the depths of divinity, he never got any of that.

And when he died, in a cruel and miserable way, he was forgotten. Antagonized. Always blamed for the downfall.

Now, you tell me, do you understand his position now? Or do you still keep thinking he is a cruel, vile monster, who doesn't deserve a second chance?

For some of you, it might be too much to forgive him. But, I hope you give him a second chance.

I hope you will give me the chance to explain about him.

Then, dear reader, it is all up to you to decide.

It all started when the great kingdom of Hastinapur sent a marriage alliance to the kingdom of Gandhar, proposing the eldest Prince Dhritarashtra's marriage with the lovely maiden Princess, Gandhari.