Which is more tragic "The loss of a love" or "The loss of the belief that love can happen again?"

I think it would be the loss of the belief that love can happen again, then we lose all hope in ever loving!

Hello!

I think this is an interesting question. However, it partly hinges on what we mean by 'tragic'. But if we take 'tragic' to mean the emotional sorrow that people feel when their loved ones are no longer there, then I would say that 'the loss of a love', really IS tragic. The loss of a particular person whom one loves, as anyone knows who have experienced it, is a very strong feeling.

But I also think it may depend on HOW the loss has manifested itself. If you are are talking about the loss of someone in the sense of the other person DYING, then it's one thing; another scenario is simply that the other person no longer loves one back, or left the scene. Different scenarios can here be more or less tragic, depending on the circumstances (as is exploited in different plays).

In my experience, the loss of the belief that love can happen again is not emotional in the same way as the loss of a certain person is. It is on a more intellectual level. So I would hesitate to compare these two things as if they were from the same category.

Perhaps are you trying to say that even though it is tough to lose a particular person's love, it is even tougher to lose one's belief in that love is possible? And that if one loses that, then one loses everything? If that's what you are thinking, I would tend to agree with you. So therefore one CANNOT lose one's belief in that love can happen again. So don't do that. Go and get it! (and read my latest play "Katherine's Questionable Quest for Love and Happiness"!)

Good luck!

BK

Editor/Author, Philosophical Plays

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The Loss Of Love. Because If You Really Loved A Person, And That Person Stopped Loving You, And Left You, You Wouldn't Never Want To Love Another In A Million Lifetimes.

The loss of a love is more tragic. Why? When you loose someone through death or divorce a part of you goes with that person when he/she is no longer there. Therefore a void is created . All you have left are the memories. It's almost like a part of you is missing no longer to be found. There is an emptiness. I am divorced & a widow so I am telling you this from experience.

Neither is more or less tragic. The truth is that love once lost, can never return. Regarding the loss of belief that it can happen again, it's true only for the time one grieves the loss of love.

for me, i stoped thinking love would happen, it made me numb, while loseing someone i loved made me sad, in a day the first seems worse, but the pain goes away, and you being to think on the good things, but the numbness of giving up on love haunts you forever, even after you find love.

the latter