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W W ou T ak e the Risk Moreover, victims of heartbreak perceive love to their hopes. Mocking the dreams they had with
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be a gorgeous snake, venomous but so alluring. To
their partner, mocking them for being so weak for
have and to hold is the only urge you are unable to
believing in a mythology of factual destiny.
fight. Yet, the danger of the venom lingers around
Yet, love isn’t just a mythology. In my eyes, it truly
pointment you feel within yourself, within the love
and be loved, a chance to never let someone falter
’
s
of being someone
of being someone’s HOME love itself. The venom being heartbreak and disap- exists. Life does offer us rare opportunities to love
HOME
and become the spine one lacks to hold themselves
that you thought to be strong had at last faltered.
up. To build a home with their feelings, brick by
Yet, people who you thought to be different had only
created a mirage of what you thought was love. In
someone is meant for you when they make you
reality, the person you thought you belonged to had brick, layering trust upon trust. You will know
never loved you at all. Your home in them never feel at home, when you reside in them at the end of
existed; they never believed in it. What a feeling your tiring day.
that realization provokes: the crushing of your ribs
The controversial topic of hate has been spirited that you go to at the end of your day. Home is some- when the person you loved slipped away from your Letting someone know that they are your home is so
across different notions of love interests. How it is where safe, something that never falters and never fingers like sand. You couldn’t do anything to keep pure. It is something so innocent and fills one’s heart
said that every Juliet is to find her Romeo, yet this fails. Humans need someone in their life who never them, whilst they never wanted to stay. with delight. To hold and be held to whatever end
ideology has failed to view that love had ended their falters; someone within whom their most fragile there may be. For, did Juliet ever roam the surface
faith. Death had been leashed upon the streets of vulnerabilities can reside. That is the feeling of heartbreak, unable to breathe of the earth? Or was it pure fiction that Shakespeare
fair Verona, making for a love story detested by mil- while air forces itself in your lungs. The sensation had written to shatter hopes or create a longing in
lions. What irony: a love story being hated because All humans seek successful romance, and yet there burns you whole. A heartbreak has been known to the hearts of those deserted by love? ■
of the outcome it had provided amongst the lovers. is quite a mythology surrounding the myriad of tear someone apart, limb by limb, while breaking
Further irony: people using the Romeo and Juliet failed romantic experiences. A heartbreak at a
play as an example of raw and pure love, whilst the young age can shatter hope for the rest of one’s life.

loving protagonists themselves never reached their The Notebook is seen as the best love story ever pre-
dream destiny of growing old together. Yet, people sented on film, yet the first half of the film represents
still value the search for true love as a core part of heartbreak. Eventually, the couple is led on towards
their own destiny. each other purely by destiny itself. The creators of Find your home, for life is full of
the historic film had wished to portray the hope
However, others dream to receive the power to love of getting the love of one’s life back. On the other
and to sustain. Somewhere out there in the world, hand, films like Titanic had portrayed the story of
people are waiting patiently to find that kind of someone losing their love or their home as I would
love. The one that is so destructive yet addictive. suggest. Both films received a ton of affection from
Why is it that people keep finding love after their the audience. However, they were different risks….
heartbreaks? What fuels their soul to keep going? Is
it the desire to find someone who can be their own? towards the end. Rose had lost jack in the crash of

the Titanic. She never forgot how much she loved
Humans declare their partners as their most prized him. Though they had only known each other for 48
possession, as their home. They cling to their home, hours, the effect lasted for 84 years. Titanic’s end was
their love, and wish to create a life within the four emotionally draining, so why did it receive so much
walls of their residence. They wish to love and be love from audiences? Is it because they understood
loved for as long as their lungs hold the power to the feeling of losing someone so well?
breathe. Home is where someone resides, someone