Is unrequited love really love? What is love with no hope, no chance of reciprocation? Someone who loves God at least expects that He will take care of the person and see them into heaven. A mother that loves her newborn child has a bond and expectation the child will understand and love her someday. What does an unrequited lover gain but hardship, pain, and sadness from the inability to give that which they feel so deeply? Some may say if one truly loves then they gain knowing a near spiritual existence towards the person they love. To what end? Can something that leads to an iron curtain around one's heart, a sense of eternal despair, and the coming undone of one's world actually be love?
No, not love, but insanity. Say it aloud. "My unrequited love is insanity." From Chaucer we get "nothing ventured, nothing gained." But what if the rate of return is zero percent? Invest your Love when there is an expected return. Constantly giving love with no results and expecting something different to happen is insanity. Where is the Sense and Sensibility wasting your most important ability as a human? You must move on and find a rewarding interest. Do it fast, before it is the death of you.
"A mighty pain to love it is,
And 'tis a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain."
-Abraham Cowley
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