As I see it, people "do the best they can with what they got." People love often despite that the fact that there is much in the post modern world that stands in the way of expressing love, openly, honestly, freely. And more often than people like to see or admit, we place so many things in the way of love and good healthy relationships: money, ambition, tradition, social conditioning, conventions, religion, politics, nationality, race, sex, power and control...
...the list could go on, but what some don't see is that there is likely nothing more satisfying and fullfilling in life than to love and be loved within a relationship that places respect, dignity and trust at the center. Those are conditions and states of being that a healthy love require, but they are also things which many fail to practice and accomplish, the true values of life. Ennis let so much get in the way of a full experience of love, and the tragedy for him was, he realized it too late to share, not with others still around him, but with Jack who deserved a fuller love more than anyone.
"Jack, I swear.... I just didn't understand."
By the way loneleeb3, I really like your quote ""The biggest obstacle to most of us achieving our dreams isn't reality, it's our own fear". Who is it from?