Maybe it depends what you think of as a "love affair"- is there a certain richness to the emotion that's required, a degree of passion?- to make the statement true... the belief that "love affairs and dreams never die".
But let's just say, that it doesn't have to be a Romeo and Juliet romance, a Harlequin dream... perhaps it is just two people, with their lives in passing that for a moment consider each other as more.
Does that moment die?
I wonder...
Can two people have the potential to live a happily ever after but miss their moment?
All those soap operas and dramatic plays that depict lovers constantly waiting- one in a relationship, the other pining after them and eventually moving on just as they become single, etc etc. Being in different cities, schools, places in their lives.
One person is ready, and the other one isn't.
Can life play out so that those lovers never align, but are forever star-crossed?
What does it mean to say "they never die"? Will these dreams live forever in your heart, haunting you with promises that can't be kept?
And wouldn't that be simply tragic... to forever the chase an immortal dream that you can never live?
I'm not sure I'm comforted by that idea, that you can keep missing something great and never really know what you've missed. I also dread the idea that love can come into your life just once... and if you miss that chance it's gone forever.
I regret, in part, not valuing the chance I had with someone who is now emotionally miles away... But I also wonder if for some reason that was better for us? Maybe we'll get a better chance later... or there's a reason we never will.
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