To answer the question,
"is it better to have loved and lost, than to not have loved at all?"
is mayhap impossible.
For once one has loved, to conceive of an existence without that love is incomprehensible.
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I imagine that must be very true.
ReplyDeleteTo bring statistics analysis methods into this: We don't know which members of the control group (those who never loved) , had they had a chance to love, would have loved and lost vs just loved.
ReplyDeleteFor those who never loved but if they had they would've only loved, they should have taken the risks and loved.
For those who never loved but if they had they would've loved and lost, they're assumed better off never having loved.
But as someone who, after never having loved, loved and lost this summer, I think that I'm better off having loved and lost than having never loved at all.
I think you answered your own query in your last sentence... ;)
ReplyDeletePerhaps that is precisely why it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. ...If one's world has expanded to where it is impossible to see what it was to be otherwise, is that not a gain of sorts?
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