Some weeks ago, I added a blog topic in my notes: Love & Loss. I’ve been staring at that topic ever since and didn’t know what to make of it. I knew its meaning was not to write about a love lost. It felt like the opposite. This week, I googled for Love & Loss and noticed this quote, which comes very close to what I was looking for as a meaning for the topic of Love & Loss:
“The risk of love is loss and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.”
At times, I wonder why I still bother continuing my dating efforts. Until seeing that quote, I assumed it was about not losing hope. What’s left in life when you’ve lost hope? Nothing.
Our lives are governed by an eternal cycle of Doubt – Fear – Hope – Love.
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), a French writer, once stated:
“Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.”
British poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) added the following famous words in his poem In Memoriam A.H.H.:
“‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.”
It’s intriguing that no one can define Love. The ancient Greek used 5 different words for love. A 2016 Time magazine article by Rabbi David Wolpe argues that we are defining Love the wrong way.
Perhaps, Love is a (natural) push-and-pull force, similar to magnetism. That might be a reason why we cannot resist trying over and over again. The risk-reward balance must be skewed in favour of reward. Yes, love hurts but not trying again will hurt us more.
Love Hurts (1960) by Nazareth (1974)
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Love hurts, love scars
Love wounds and marks
Any heart
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