unrequited

unrequited - one of the many loathed words by many. In the cold silence, thoughts tend to drift back to this topic. Not that i do not have work to do - but most of it is done for the day and currently waiting responses.
decided to plug that word in dictionary.com to see what would be the result.

Stumbled upon this quote:

"It is thought a disgrace to love unrequited. But the great will see that true love cannot be unrequited. True love transcends the unworthy object, and dwells and broods on the eternal, and when the poor interposed mask crumbles, it is not sad, but feels rid of so much earth, and feels its independency the surer"

As much as i or anyone whom is in this position would like to believe that statement as a fact - but the cold truth stings and brings us back to reality. As nc puts it, "in real life situation, it is still highly subjected to the human free will"

The beloved is a choice to reciprocate or to continue not to (or totally oblivious to the fact of it)

Wiki says this: "In terms of the feelings of the hopeful one, it could be said that they undergo about the same amount of pain as does someone who is going through the breakup of a romantic relationship without ever having had the benefit of being in that relationship."

so you don't actually have to get into a relationship to understand the severity of a break up - yet both have one common denominator, broken hearts lol.

Reading around too resust in stumbling upon "If you don't let go, you won't be able to move forward"Yet therein lies the conflict doesn't it? Apply hope? or do not apply hope?

Flipping through the pages of history, past events though many of the same nature were not as intense as this. What made this so intense? What made it so very difficult to move on? Was it the dreams? Was it the thoughts? Or as truth may hurt - was it my believing those dreams and thoughts to be real? Where did i go wrong?

Again, many questions and no answers.