I am in love. For the first time in my life, I am in love, but due to my own poor luck or other reasons surpassing understanding, the girl I love is engaged to someone else. Apparently, nothing in my life, not even falling in love, will ever be easy. In his play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare wrote, “The course of true love never did run smooth,” and nowhere is the inherent truth of that statement more apparent than in my own life.
I had been in love with Sarah for about a year before I ever considered the possibility of any reciprocation of my feelings. After all, she was engaged, though I found it curios that in all the time I had known her she had never spoken positively about her fiancé. At the same time, I was living miserably with a girl myself, and although my romantic life was rapidly self-destructing, any prospective union remained impossible due to our respective situations. I was unhappy with my life and my living arrangements, and in Sarah I saw something different, some intrinsic greatness that I could not describe. In Sarah, I saw my female counterpart, my equal, and, to borrow a phrase from a letter she once wrote to me, “the person who compliments my very existence.”
Now I had always liked Sarah, and, from the first time I laid eyes on her, I had felt this subtle but unmistakable attraction to her. I wanted to know her, to be near her, but, above all else, I wanted to make her smile. I love that smile. I loved the way she would lean her head forward slightly and close her eyes. I loved the way her mouth would open so wide that you could see the pink above her teeth. But most of all, I loved the dimple directly beneath her left eye that only appeared when she smiled. She was ...
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Now, as I am writing this, she is sleeping not 5 feet from me. She has a different apartment, but the computer is still the same, and she is most definitely still the same, and, as I look I her, I feel a contentment I’ve never experienced before. I know this is probably not going to end well for me, and I know that the few months that we have had together cannot compete with the years she has had with her fiancé, and, in a way, I don’t really care. All I ever wanted was a chance to show her, and I have been given that in abundance, so I cannot complain. Who knows what will happen? Maybe one day, if I am lucky, things will work out between us and I will be able to tell this story without changing names and minor details. Maybe one day, I will actually end up with the woman I love, and if that ever happens, I cannot imagine my life being any easier.
Love is a very ambitious situation, if you are not careful, it can make you do ridiculous things. As much as it is beautiful, it is also dangerous. At times you have to be attentive and be sure that the person is feeling the same as you do. Someone once told me that people fall in love with the most unexpected person at the most unexpected time. In the two movies The Land of Blood and Honey and The Lives of Others, there was unexpected romance that arose from both films and it all happened at the wrong time. The obstacles these relationships face were due to promises. The promises weren’t about making changes; they were about not facing them alone. Nevertheless, where there is love, there is also betrayal.
Shakespeare captured the idea that true love’s course never runs smooth extremely well in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and several pieces of literature in modern times follow suit to that idea. Modern authors write stories about people who are in love and have to move away from each other, ultimately causing the course of true love to not run smooth. The popular novel, The Fault in Our Stars, also follows this idea since the two lovers are separated due to their cancer diagnosis. Outside of literature, things like divorce and laws against same sex marriage cause the course of true love to not run smooth. Both in Shakespeare’s times and in modern day, “the course of true love never did run smooth”(28) is an idea that proves itself again and again.
There are many complications that can be attributed to true love. These complications affect not only the lovers but also the nature around them. Some of these complications include jealousy and misjudgment. All of these obstacles support the fact that the course of true love never runs smooth. Although true love is treasured, there are definitely hindrances and impediments that come with it. In the case of the lovers in A Midsummer’s Night Dream, they all were granted the joys of true love, but also endured the complications that came as a price. Every one of them could testify that the course of true love never has and never will run smoothly.
Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT) was established by Albert Ellis and he has found that what individuals accepted unequivocally influenced how they responded rationally. Accordingly, when their beliefs became irrational, it would make individuals feel skeptical, edgy or bad tempered and would even prompt pounding toward oneself state of mind (Psych Central.com, 2014). REBT is a pragmatic methodology to help people in taking care of and vanquishing troubles and in addition attaining objectives. REBT places a decent arrangement of its point of convergence on the present and locations state of mind, undesirable feelings and nonadaptive practices that can affect life fulfillment adversely. REBT additionally gives a show
“The course of true love never did run smooth” –William Shakespeare. Shakespeare truly proved this quote in his illustrious play called Romeo and Juliet. These two star-crossed lovers definitely did not have a smooth course to true love, as they experienced many hardships along the way that ultimately resulted in their downfall. Romeo and Juliet’s forbidden love unleashed a strain on their reputations, friendships, and their relationship with their families.
There are many different types of victims we have discussed over the course of this class, but we’re only going to talk about two types in the following paper. These two types of victims are common just as any another victim across America. These include sex assault victims and child abuse victims, which are both primary victims in cases. The two share a tie together, both are a victim of abuse and can cause lifelong consequences, but they also pose many differences as well. Many questions arise when talking about victims, for example why is a child or adult being abused and what are the life altering affects to these actions. Throughout this paper we discuss both sexual assault victims and child abuse victims and compare and contrast between the two.
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