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Love, Death and the Whole Damn Thing

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mariez:

--- Quote from: Katie77 on March 20, 2009, 02:17:31 am ---Anyone who has ever loved passionatly, would never give up that experience.

Even if it meant dying of a broken heart, to have missed having had that love would be worse than never having felt it at all.

In my opinion, anyone who has never loved would feel just as bad as having a broken heart anyway.

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Yes, so well said!  Regret is the worst feeling of all.

delalluvia:
I voted other.  Why does passionate love have to lead to loss and death?  Why does the alternative have to be a lifetime without love?

In other words - why does it have to be so black and white?

Whatever happened to a happy ending?  Whatever happened to marrying one's best friend because we all know passion dies and what is left is the best love of all?  Passionate Love is the Drama Queen of Love.  The best we all can hope for is that we die in the arms of a loved one.  What's wrong with that?  SOMEone has to be left behind (unless they have some sort of sick suicide pact going) and I would be the last to wish unrelenting grief and pain on someone I loved.  I would want them to recover and move on and enjoy what's left of their life.  Not grieve over me so much that they die.  That's a horrible thing to want to happen or to experience.  In fact if it looks as if someone is going to do that, we act as if it's a mental illness and we try to treat such people.

Aeneas and Dido are a bad example.  They would have been together save for the gods' interference and Destiny, and after Dido commits suicide Aeneas is shocked to see her in his journey through Hades.  She rebuffs him and flies off with her deceased husband who she claims never left her.  So even passionate love was 2nd to loyalty and steadfastness in love.

Front-Ranger:
Hehe, I had a poll like this about a year ago:

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,22288.0/all.html

Yours is more ruthless with only three choices!

Kerry:

--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 24, 2009, 10:53:43 pm ---Hehe, I had a poll like this about a year ago:

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,22288.0/all.html

Yours is more ruthless with only three choices!

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Blame it on Henry Purcell. I love that aria.   :'(    :'(    :'(

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