Mania about the cholera book

Saturday night lying in bed texting, while reading "dorian gray" and still while texting some pips. Got this text quoting a phrase from the book "Love in the time of Cholera." Sometime ago a close frined of mine was also talking about this book being the best love story ever. You see i have not read this book yet but the mania over Marquez's greatest novel seems to hunt me. Being promised a copy of the novel as a going away present I did not venture to buy a copy for myself. Now two people are telling me that they'll lend me a copy of the book. Hmmm that I have to see... Anyway the book is about Florentino Arize's undying and unrequited love for Fermina Daza. A guy who after being promised love for so long was suddenly left for another guy (what a bummer) yet he lived a life still loving the very woman he promised his undying love for. (awww men!) After many years of not seeing each other, when Fermina's husband died, and while Fermina was grieving over her death husband, Florentino came back and said to her "I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and ever-lasting love." That has got to be the most romantic yet foolish line I have ever heard. (And you thought I read the book? not! thanks to the Internet I got the gist.) And here I was thinking that no way can a person continue loving someone who do not love them in return that long. I mean get a life, you deserve to be happy! And yet going back to Ally McBeal's lines I remembered when she said something like "some people are lucky to have one person as their love of their life, some love does not die or go away." something like that... And then we have "The Notebook" by Nicolas Sparks, where the guy's life revolved around the girl, even runing his life because he got freaking hurt. How real is this? Haller? For someone who have been scarred by life and yet too damn afraid to make a commitment, can love be truly this profound? despite it being unrequited? despite being fooled? Is it not plain stupidity to continue loving someone who do not love you in return? Unreciprocated love happens a lot of times in one's lifetime, savor it but hell pal move on. There must be some sort of an end to it. Don't tell me that love is blind because it is not. Love is too pure to be blind and explained as shallow as that. Love can not be blind, the person just refuses to see the reality behind the facade of happiness, sparks and flowers-galore they are feeling; oh and it also includes the pain one feels (some are just too masochist.) Although love is conditional you know; hypocrites are people who said their love is unconditional because pal the mere fact that you have expectations about it, it becomes conditional. (Think about it.) I am not saying that undying love can not exist because as cynical as I am, I still believe in undying love. I am just saying that it should not make a person suffer. Everyone deserves the kind of love that will make them grow, the kind of love that knows no bounderies, the kind of love... I don't know just the kind of love that is pure... Maybe like the "Little Prince" type of love for his Rose.

Yikes! What's going on here? Are they telling me something more than just the book? And why am I suddenly so sentimental? Remember I can not relate! Hmmm... Well its nice to think about these things once in awhile while listening to some oldie songs... kampai!