"Like river, love flows downwards."

Reciprocal love. Does it sound like a real thing? Does it feel like something that ever existed or will exist in the future? Haven't you ever had your heart betrayed by your crush? Haven't you felt bad when you didn't receive love from people you loved and expected them to love you back? If you have, maybe you are not alone.

Across the world, people have loved someone and not received love back and even worse, they had to see their loved ones go out of their way to love someone else and later feel sad on not being loved back.

I sometimes wonder if it is the nature of things for such happenings.I have seen the smiles of the mothers in maternity wards, on getting to see the face of her newborn, taking away all the pain of labor she had to go through.

I have seen around me, parents who loved their children more than they love themselves, later in their old age, deserted by their children, spend a miserable life.

I have seen parents who take care of their children and take every possible measure to keep their children protected, helplessly  watch their children spend their time in depression because they had their lover dumped them.

Like river, love flows downwards.

There is a question I was interested in. The question presents a tragic hypothetical situation.

A train is approaching in a lane in which someone has tied your daughter and there is another lane to which the train can be switched to in which your mother has been tied. Neither your daughter nor your mother can help themselves get out of the lane. You are somewhere around and the only thing you can do is switch the lane of the train. Now, would you..

1

 Switch the lane of the train and save your daughter in which case your mother would be killed,

OR

2

 Let the train go on in it's current lane and let it kill your daughter?

For people who don't have a daughter yet, it's not hard to decide but if you have a daughter, you will surely have a hard time deciding. You will spend your years in dilemma. But the train is in speed and is approaching, a quick decision is to be made. 

What I think is the answer for most people will be option 1, to switch the lane of the train and save your daughter.

The love for one's children is often greater than the love for self or anyone else. Two Nepali proverbs confirm the same thing.

1. "समको भन्दा ब्याज को माया बढी ।"

2. "आमा-बाबुको मन छोरा-छोरी माथि,छोरा-छोरीको मन ढुङ्गा मुढा माथि । "