The Beauty And Pain Of Falling In Love
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
—Leo Tolstoy
When we think of love, we often think of heartbreak too. There is no single definition of love as it looks different for everyone. But there are a few things we can all agree about. Love is one of the most intense emotions in the universe that can change our entire perspective of life. It is greater than petty feelings like obsession, infatuation or attachment. Love is a connection that people fight for and a reason that keeps many alive. This is why unrequited love can lead to heartbreak that can last a lifetime.
A History of Heartbreak
We can trace love to Shakespeare’s England to the times of Romeo and Juliet and Elizabethan lovers. As much as fictional love stories have unraveled in the United Kingdom, real life has not been devoid of spectating great romance either.
And then there is the romantic love of King Edward I who was deeply in love with his wife. After her death, he was in great mourning and to honor their love he built 12 monuments which remained the temples of love for a long time. Their love was not tumultuous like the Henry and Anne’s but their own version of passionate emotions. These stories of the royalty going far and beyond for love really set the tone of England as the capital for lovers who would go to any extreme for their love.
Authors Love Stories
The late 17thcentury author, Jane Austen, continues to win over the hearts of the entire world with her works like Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Mansfield Park. Her works are full of the intensity and vulnerability which is present among lovers. While Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy lived the romance with a happy ever after, Austen’s own love life was far from it. She was in love with a man named Tom Lefroy whom she could not marry under circumstances of his life. Tom Lefroy did not have the fortune to offer Jane Austen which was a condition under which people were to be married during their times. And to stay true to her love, Jane Austen never got married and lived alone writing her books until she died.
These are the authors who have given us the greatest love stories of time that live among us, inspire us and instill in us the feeling that love is larger than our lives. However, they did not live the stories and went through heartbreak just like the rest of us.
F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, “There are all kinds of love in the world but never the same love twice.” The author of the Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night and many other love tales had his own affair with Zelda Fitzgerald.
They were living in the Jazz Era and were life of the party. However, as much as they loved each other, they were destructive to each other in many ways. They dared each other to cliff diving, dated other people to make each other jealous and simply could not find a way to be together without feeling the need to hurt the other. This was the downfall of their love life.
They were living in the Jazz Era and were life of the party. However, as much as they loved each other, they were destructive to each other in many ways. They dared each other to cliff diving, dated other people to make each other jealous and simply could not find a way to be together without feeling the need to hurt the other. This was the downfall of their love life.
Celebrities Heartbreak Experiences
While kings and authors offer us a rich history of love life and heartbreaks, celebrities in the contemporary world aren’t immune to it either. One of the couples to have been in spotlight was that of Johnny Depp and Winona Rider. They were sweethearts and engaged until their breakup which caused a great heart break to both of them.
Jennifer Aniston
Who remembers Jennifer Aniston and her husband Brad Pitt? They were totally head over heels with each other since youth but they didn’t realize when their love had lost its magic and had to split eventually. Jennifer Anniston talked about feeling pathetic because the couple was starting to avoid each other but would not accept that they had a problem. 
Kate Winslet
The Titanic star, Kate Winslet also suffered a great deal when she had to divorce her husband Sam Mendes. She opened up about ignoring her emotions until one of her friends told her that it was fine to cry about it.
Reese Witherspoon
And finally, we have Reese Witherspoon who was married to Ryan Philippe at a tender age. She recalls feeling heartbroken and depressed but learning a great deal from her failed marriage because she was young when she made the decision to commit.
In other words, it is rare to have a love that will last forever but love is something you work for. And again, no one is immune to the pain of heartbreak but one should always accept when a relationship has failed. You can always move on find love in different forms or within yourself. I’m the end, love is the greatest force of all and the loveliest feeling in the world.
An Extract From Author Andrew Segal
Copyright © Andrew 2019
Learning about what’s behind an act of MURDER
Principally seeking sexual gratification, Fred West killed at least 12 women, apparently accepting the murder of his own stepdaughter by his then wife, Rosemary West.
John Reginald Christie, a necrophiliac, murdered 8 or more women, some, during the sex act, in the 1940s and 1950s. These included his wife, Ethel and house tenant Beryl Evans and her baby daughter, Geraldine. With his receding hairline and domed forehead, he looked the very epitome of evil.
Benevolent and harmless looking, bearded and bespectacled Doctor Harold Shipman killed more than 200 patients, benefitting in some cases from legacies in their wills.
In the US, Ted Bundy, with his film star good looks, killed dozens of women, boasting of his kills, in many cases preserving their heads as macabre souvenirs.
Also in the US, Jeffrey Dahmer killed and on occasion, cannibalised some of the 17 men and boys comprising his victims.
Pedro Lopez, the Columbian killer, current whereabouts unknown, claims to have killed and raped more than 300 women. Is he still on a killing spree?
And on it goes.
Is it any surprise therefore that we’re so fascinated by murder? That most heinous of crimes. There are libraries full of books on the subject, the whys and the wherefores. The motives, manners of, outcomes and consequences. Authors, journalists and psychologists together with Joe and Josephine public discuss it endlessly. We even use the term, murder, in casual parlance. Expressions and phrases like, ‘Blue murder: Murder most foul: I could murder a cup of tea: I’m warning you, their’ll be murders.’
Humanity’s DNA is a micromillimeter from that of the primate, which may, in common with us, kill for food, territory or a mate. But nothing on earth compares with the ingenuity of humankind when it comes to the aims and aspirations of the thrill killer, the motiveless killer, the drive-by killer, the schools mass murderer or finally, the serial killer, that is, the psychopath who kills for the apparent pleasure of it.
So why have I chosen to write about a murder? Probably for the same reason every other crime writer has elected to. I’ve sought to get inside the head of my fictional killer, to determine a motive, to unmask what has impelled my character to take a life or lives. And then simultaneously offering the reader the opportunity to participate in the challenge faced by police, private eye or committed individual, to identify and to attempt to account for their behaviour.
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