Hyper-reality

The hyperreality of love has created this idea that love is simply found and easily held onto. In many of the movies and books today the idea of love is that there are two people who are perfect for each other, they date, they marry, and they live happily ever after. This idea is the hyperreality we are accustomed to; it is what we expect in a realtionship. Love is not always easy, and often times it is not that the people begin perfect for each other, but that they grow into being perfect together. In the words of William Shakespeare, "The course of true love never did run smooth." That is so true, because no matter how close you are to each other life will come and try to rip you apart. You try to hang on, you hang on tight and you fight will all the strength - that is when you find true love. The expectation is that love is just found in another, when the reality is that love is found in the struggles and battles you go through with another person.

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