For Someone Who Needs To Hear This Analysis

Ever since I first heard, “You Always Hurt the One you Love”, I had fallen in love with it. The lyrics being very simply, saying “You always hurt the one you love, the one you shouldn’t hurt at all”. In the context of this story, I feel like this verse would

The quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson “‘tis better to have loved and lost than to have never have loved at all.” is very powerful and very true. From the story How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy provides evidence of the truth of this quote and is also presented in the story The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. These two stories highlight the life lessons of loving something and losing it compared to not having had it at all. This quote can also be put into real life because everyone needs to make a few mistakes in order to learn and losing something allows for life lessons as well. Tennyson’s quote can be applied to a lot of things in life, like literature and even reality.

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek to find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

”There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

So we grew up believing no one would ever fall in love with us, that we’d be lonely forever, that we’d never meet someone to make us feel like the sun was something they built for using their tool shed. So broken heart strings bled the blues as we tried to empty ourselves so we would feel nothing”

Alyssa B. Sheinmel makes the theme that sometimes you have to forget and accept what has happened in your past clear throughout the novel.

Second quote that came to me in this book with another life lesson is, “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Let it come in.” We think we do not deserve love or think if we let love in, we will become too soft. A wise man named Levin

I’m sure we’ve all had those situations where you realize just how bad of mistake you’ve made, where you just wanna turn back time and forget that everything ever happened. We all have that event that haunts us every time we think about it. The night that happened really woke me up… To a wide-eyed nine year old me, nothing seemed matter. The idea that I could do anything held up true in my own mind, and at times I truly felt I was better than everyone else. Naivety and arrogance were the foundation of my world. My lack of shame stemmed from the lack of consequences my actions had. No matter what, I could always wake up the next day like nothing had ever happened.

I did not intend to fall in love with Ed Kennedy. For so long I knew that I was falling, and for so long I denied it. I did not want to get hurt again. He was my best friend and that wasn’t something that I wanted to tarnish. I refused to let love get in the way. Love, with its tender arms and beautiful face, can so, so brutal. Like a sledgehammer that rushes up and down my spine, crashes into my skull and vibrates deep inside my brain. Despite my reservations and my hesitations, Ed loved me, he pitied me, and I could see that he did. There was a wash of absence over him, like nostalgia for a future in which he was already living. He was there for me when concrete filled my soul, and held my hand when I could no longer tread the quicksand.

I feel excited and accomplished. In the podcast it mentions that in western culture we associate understanding something immediately with being smart, and personally, this is very true. When I understand something immediately I feel very smart and I feel as if I am excelling with the concept at hand, and in all honesty I also feel as if I am above those in the course who may not fully understand.

Things will happen in your life that you will want to forget and it remember. A lyric that represents this is “But time is gonna change, we’ve got to move somehow but I don’t want to lose you know”. The lyrics also says/represents that even if you have a bad memory that maybe you don’t want to let go of it or that maybe it’s something that you do kind of want to keep that memory with you. This relates to my 8th grade experience, because I do have some memories that I do want to remember and forget. Some of them are funny and embarrassing and others are just embarrassing.

Never let go of what you really love because later you will regret something you shouldn't have done. This is something that Meghan Trainor in "Like I'm Gonna Lose You" is trying to put out to everybody. In this song, she talks about how something you really love and can be let go will later be a regretful thing. She describes how her boyfriend used to be so close and know she regrets doing what she did. Trainor's theme of the song is that you never want to let go of somebody you love.

Many other people have been in similar situations which have taught them a ‘life lesson’. In Gondry and Kaufman’s Eternal Sunshine, Dr Howard Mierzwiak knew of the power of memories. He went about erasing people’s memories without telling them the full consciences of their actions; like Joel who midway through the erasing process realised he wanted to keep them, his life afterwards was different as he didn’t have his memories of Clementine to remind him of what love felt like.

"In a perfect world, when he's with her, he would be wishing he was with me; when he looked at her, he would be looking at me; when he smiled at her, his smile would be for me; when he thought about someone, he would be thinking about me. In a perfect world, he would realize that I'm the one he was supposed to be with & I would still be standing here waiting for him still when he finally knows this. But this isn't a perfect world and people do get hurt. Because how can you give your dreams to someone else, yet share your dreams with me? Sometimes the truest love is the love that can never be"

Years have passed, my teenage years, even up until present, as an adult, the past seems to creep up from deep inside my soul to the surface on every January and the reflection of that memory makes my heart ache. The questions of why run through