The Three Myths 13

The three myths I read today were Echo and Narcissus, Clytie, and Hero and Leander. All of them were about falling in love with someone who will never love you back. In Clytie, a water nymph falls in love with Apollo, who had left and made no return, She awaited him for so long, that eventually she became a flower. In Echo and Narcissus, several nymphs fall in love with a man called Narcissus. He never loves any of them back, which makes a goddess curse him in the same way. So one day, he sees his reflection in the water and falls in love with it. He stares at at it until eventually he too, becomes a flower. In the last myth, Leander falls in love with a hero who lived in an opposite shore. Every night, he took a swim to in company of her, but one day, the sees were rough and the man drowned. The hero became aware of this and also perished into the water.

Love is always a complicated matter, especially if you are in the shoes of one of these people. There is no bigger torture then to see that the person you love does not love you back. If you do have this love, then you put it in front of everything, even your own life, and would absolutely anything for it to be safe. Many people, like the characters in the myths I read, die without ever having their true love. I hope it will never to me because there should nothing sadder or lonelier than to die this way.