Earlier today, I was listening to Jessye Norman singing Dido's Lament from Henry Purcell's opera, Dido and Aeneas." It occurred to me, "Is it better to have loved passionately and died of a broken heart or never to have loved at all?"
To have loved is to experience something those who have never loved have not. Simply put, one who dies experiencing love is far better than one who has never loved. The prior has the experience, the later not.
Which makes me think. When so much about the gay lifestyle has nothing to do with love but everything to do with sex, what becomes of those who 'fucked' the years away? I know many, many gay men that did just that. Passionate love was never a motivation. It was all about how many and how often and most aren't around to discover what love is all about.
Jack and Ennis certainly experienced passionate love. Despite fatherhood and such, they found love in each other. That which they would have never found in Lureen and Alma. Would it have been better for them to marry and have kids like they did and never love passionately like only they could do (with another man)? Of course not.
Brad