I’ve always believed that the concept of true love doesn’t exist or belong in this society. All it ever does is either gets people hurt, thrown in jail or in those rare cases, happy (holding my tongue). I’m speaking of course of the recent run of trouble befalling various people in this country for simply being in love which has turned into a crime in of itself.
Take Jodi Arias – she was convicted back in May for premeditated murder for the way she took out her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander. She may have been a lying, manipulative witch who needs to die for what she did but she, in her twisted excuse of a mind, believed she was in love and was willing to do anything to make sure that nothing came in between them. Although her love turned into an obsession as new information surfaces saying she stalked an ex-boyfriend before she met Travis. End result – she’s either going on death row or spending the rest of her life in jail. True love huh, yeah right.
Next, Joshua Young – he was acquitted in his trial several weeks back after being accused of helping his birth father murder his stepbrother and tampering with evidence. He was obviously manipulated by his father in a chaotic family setting. According to his statements, he loved his father so much he would be willing to do anything for him. This is about love for a family although this family needs a thousand rounds of counseling and Josh needs a new setting to thrive. This was supposed to be love and devotion to a family – what a piece of crock.
How about Andrea Sniderman – she was convicted on nine of thirteen charges of lying to authorities and hampering the investigation into the death if her husband. She had an affair with her ex-boss who was responsible for the man’s murder. She claimed that she loved her husband and would never cheat on him but evidence that came out said that she and her ex-boss had an affair which gave this man the idea to murder Andrea’s husband. He claimed to be in love with Andrea who denies any allegation of an affair. Now her husband is gone, her lover’s serving a life sentence and she’s has just been sentenced to five years for her crimes in the matter. What happens to her kids who’ll be without neither parent for the next four years. Love drove people to kill and lie; what else? I haven’t started yet.
That brings me to a case that blew up back in the spring and has people shaking their heads – 18-year-old Kaitlyn Hunt. This is an ongoing situation in Florida that has a lot of people upset with what’s gone down so far and still ongoing. According to authorities, Hunt was in a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old female classmate she went to high school with – a lesbian relationship. The parents of the 14-year-old told the pair they didn’t approve of the relationship and told them to terminate it (never tell a teen to do something – it won’t end well) and when they found out that they didn’t, they pressed charges against Hunt and prosecutors hit her with lewd acts on a minor. She was offered a plea deal to a felony count of child abuse but she turned them down. Now the deal’s off the table because prosecutors say Hunt violated terms of her bail by contacting her lover via I-Pod and sent over 20,000 text and nude pics back and forth. Her bond has been revoked and she’s in custody until her next court date Sept. 26. This whole thing has been a complete mess from the beginning. Everyone’s at fault for what’s going on in this situation. Hunt and her girlfriend are at fault for not ending their relationship creating this whole situation. Both sets of parents in my opinion are to blame as well. They could’ve figured out how to settle this matter without destroying their kids’ lives by dragging them into court. This is a situation that yields no winners and if Hunt is convicted of nothing more that being a high school girl in love, then we have some major problems in our society. She’ll have to live the rest of life as a sex offender unable to be around kids alone. It doesn’t matter that the two lovers in this situation are girls and they’re four years apart age wise. This is about the law getting involved in the high-school dating scene causing all sorts of chaos. This case is going to cause ripple effects for all younger-older high school relationships going forward. No matter how this ends, no one emerges as the winner.
As I’ve said, love is nothing more than a sick joke that only ends horribly for all those involved. True love doesn’t exist unless you’re one of the lucky ones. Nine times out of ten, the love you share with your significant other will only end in either a broken heart, being lied to or cheated on and in some cases – death. I’m sure that they’re more situations out there than I mentioned in this post but I have little reason to believe in the concept of love in this world. Sure we have it for ourselves and each other, but true love between two individuals, no matter what gender makeup they have, doesn’t and can’t exist. There are those who do believe in true love and more power to them. I believe that there’s no way that two people can be truly happy together without some disaster befalling them. Those are my thoughts so let it be.
