There is a popular song that goes like this:
Do not forsake your love, for your life does not end tomorrow.
There is a warning in those words. If you love someone, but choose to give up on them when things get difficult, what if.. you, or him, or both of you.. will never recover?
Some love stories, immortalized in classical literature, echo those eternal truths.
Let us look at 2 examples:
Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky, Leo Tolstoy’s novel “Anna Karenina”.
… It’s not his fault, and it’s not her fault, but they are hurting each other’s feelings constantly, and what started as a gorgeous romance ends up as an utter misery…
He feels his life has ended, too, after she takes hers, and so he goes to war, to die.
Cathy and Heathcliff, Emily Bronte’s
“Wuthering Heights”.
Cathy gives up on him- chooses to get married to someone else; she dies from broken heart a year or so later in spite of her husband’s love and devotion . Heathcliff’s life has a tragic end, too- at the end he was just so glad to die, so he could reunite with Cathy in that way.
Dear Friend, you might know many broken hearted people who don’t actually die; sure, I agree. But great many of them never find happiness again.
I love this quote by Alfred de Musset:
One Must Not Trifle with Love