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Author: Timothy Webster (---.client.comcast.net)
Date: 02-09-04 02:05
It is an age-old question, but still a difficult one to answer.
Life is love, and to live your life having not loved another is a tragedy and a waste.
It may be the ultimate risk v. reward situation. When you love someone you put yourself at great risk of being hurt, but the reward of a love returned that is true is the greatest blessing in life.
I was in love once and had my guts ripped out when I was betrayed. I swore I would never open myself up to that kind of pain again. In the time that has passed since then I have leaned that the lonleliness and incomplete feelings of a life without love is far worse.
To answer the question, I have to conclude that it is better to have loved and lost. I feel that anyone who has experienced love would agree that it is a force (more than an emotion, more than a feeling) that everyone should be lucky enough to experience. The person who has never loved would of course avoid the great pain of loss, but they would, perhaps without even knowing it, have a different kind of pain - a numbing dead inside kind that I argue is much worse.
Just my .02
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