Interview Essay - David Redding

Through life, people experience many kinds of love. Many people often believe they love someone, when they actually do not because they may not know what the word means. As much as we want to understand love, it is still simply indescribable. As C.S. Lewis tries to explain it in his book, The Four Loves, it is still a mystery as to what love truly means. I believe in order to know what love means, one must experience it. It is quite true that went two individuals are in love with each other, they know it and can feel it. No matter how much love is studied and looked at, every individual must experience it to understand it. Along with this love lies circumstances which lead

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.

Murray Meisels was born on April 19, 1924, in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up in New York City and came to California in 1941 to attend college at USC. After graduating from USC, he attended the University of Oregon Dental School and the University of Buffalo Dental School. Murray served in the military during WWII and the Korean War. In 1948, he married Francis and they made their home in Buffalo, New York. They raised two children, and Murray owned a dental practice for over 40 years. While raising a family and practicing dentistry, he completed a Masters degree and taught at the University of Buffalo Dental School. In 1991 Murray retired from private practice, but continued teaching part time at the

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

I have experienced love, lost, and the slimmest of experience of realizing that you fallen and that you now have to pick yourself back up and try again. I empathize with Jim Cross from the short story “The Things They Carried” for all the emotions he goes through while living in the purgatory that is called war. From the sentence, where Jim Cross looks back at a moment where Martha and he were at the movies, ”when he touched her knee, she turned and looked at him in a sad, sober way that made him pull his hand back(P.3),” it becomes clear that the aim of the flashback was to solidify the reader’s understanding that Jim’s love is unrequited. Throughout high school I was in love with my best friend, which turned out to be unrequited also. I was in absolutely despair and heartbroken, but the love that was there, throughout all the pain it brought me, was a gift.

The absence of love can be one of the loneliest things and there is nothing you can do to fix it. Love is not measured by time or by how much money you have but sometimes people feel as if they're in love with someone when there just in love with what they represent and the lifestyle they live. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald illustrates how absence of love creates loneliness.

A life devoid of love creates a period of vigorous mental instability and often opens eyes and promotes changes in lifestyle and perspective. This transformation is almost never a smooth one, and somebody travelling down a pathway can easily lose their way and travel off the beaten trail. Where they end up is always relative to their situation. For instance, as their journey

“People say you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. Truth is, you knew what you had, you just never thought you’d lose it.” -Anonymous”. In other words, what the quote means is that people know what they have, but they just don’t have it in mind that they will lose it someday. Many people out there often do not realize that they can lose someone so close to them as that special someone will forever exist. Without any loss, there is no love. If people do not care to loose someone there was never love to begin with. In the dystopian novel of The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, the theme is loss of love. Loss of love is both demonstrated in the novel and as well it is presented in the real world. Loss of love occurs in The Brief

Beverly Smith is currently 70 years old. She was raised in Fullerton and was part of a family of five children. Her mother influenced her life greatly. Beverly grew up quickly as a result of her mother's death when she was only 11 years old. Her mother was well honored by many. Beverly is actively involved in her religion, and enjoys exercising, and listening to music.

This quote is what I’ve held in my memory for as long as I can remember and have made me truly understand the concept of love. Love can either be the greatest gift one can receive, or it can be heart breaking when it doesn’t correspond to

Somebody I knew and loved once said to me, “Love isn't perfect. It isn't a fairytale or a storybook, and it doesn't always come easy. Love is overcoming obstacles, facing challenges, fighting to be together, holding on and never letting go. Love is work, but most of all, love is realizing that every hour, every minute, every second of it was worth it because you did it.....together.” is this quote true or does it hold a special meaning inside?

There is a purpose for any love. There is a reason why one is loved and this is because one will always benefit from it. For example, the love a child gets from a mother is known as unconditional because no matter what a child does or says they will always be loved by their mom. Family love is heavenly, it is not the sexual desire for a person, it is the wisdom and intelligence that you gain from one another. So knowing this, one can say that Love is actually not unconditional because you improve and gain wisdom from your loved one meaning you will always get something out of love no matter what the case. If you do not benefit from love and love is only physical love and desire for someone, is it actually love?

In my eyes love is the best thing to have because with it you are a better person. Even though there are more positives then negatives in this case, one negative which I have not overcome and struggle to accept is that is not always perfect , this I feel has made me fear being in a relationship. Like most people I want to be in a healthy and lasting relationship with a girl, but due to impossible standards set by movies and my need to reach it I have trouble having a successful relationship. But it’s not all bad as these movies have made me have a better understanding of love and what it’s supposed to look like. 4.

On page 211 of the Kite Runner, the narrator states, “It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place” (Hosseini). This is a true statement because a person who never experiences a certain item cannot feel the pain caused from losing it. I was in sixth grade at Tesseract Middle School when my parents told me they were getting divorced. That day they sat me down on the brown leather couch in the living room. My dad’s eyes were red, so I could tell he had been crying and I was worried someone had passed in the family. Then my mom finally said the words that changed my life, “We are getting divorced and we think it is what is best for the family.” I nodded my head in acknowledgment and then I headed straight to my bedroom

A study confirmed that one's chances of dying from a heart attack increases by up to 35% following a loved one's death, making dying from a heartbreak literally possible. Love is directly linked to suffering, one not being able to exist without the other. In Nicholas Sparks novel, The Choice, love being a destructive force is demonstrated through suffering and consequences. The definition of love, by Sparks, ‘’is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.’’ It can pressure you into hazardous situations, change the way family members behave and it can ruin someone's health, both physically and mentally.