What is it about love that draws people together? A bond between friends and family? Something more? What happens when you truly love someone? Will you fight to the end of the world for them? Care and treasure the special bond you have? Indulge yourselves with each others care and love forever? Be true to them? What if you do all the possible things to make your relationship and partnership work, but something still goes wrong? What if you lose the other half of your cookie, your oreo, the love of your life? What happens then?
SPOILER ALERT! FOR ALL PARAGRAPHS! Katniss, the main character in my book The Hunger Games (Book #1), lost her father when she was eleven years old in a mine explosion. Her mother was so devastated, it was like Katniss and her sister primrose lost their mother too. Their mother's spirit was like sucked into a black hole of emptiness and there was no way to escape. Well, it wasn't like she tried. Their mother sat back and watched as her kids starved. It was like she forgot how to live.
It's understandable to go into depression or denial when someone so very dear to you is lost forever. But it's so easy to go so deep, you can't get out. Like a maze or a labyrinth, it's hard to get out, but so very easy to get lost. Their mother was lost, for a very very long time, but she finally found her way out. She escaped and came back. But while she was "gone" Katniss became the "parent". I understand what it feels like to lose someone dear, but i promise you won't be the only one grieving and you can't let the depressiona dn denial maze and come and take you away from everyone else that loves you!
When Katniss volunteered to go to the hunger games instead of Prim it was loving and thoughtful. Prim's name was put in the ball just ONCE but she was picked at random. Katniss jumped in front of her little sister before Prim reached the steps to stop her and volunteer. Prim wouldn't let her go but Katniss's friend Gale pulled her away and let Katniss go the the podium. Gale didn't want it either, but he knew that there was no other choice unless he wanted to let Prim go to the hunger games.
Love will make you do strange things. Thoughtful things. Caring things. Crazy things. But all are rooted in compassion and love for the other person(s). When Katniss was saying her goodbyes to Prim and her mother, Katniss repremanded her mother about the "leaving" thing years ago. She told her that she can't leave Prim alone now because there is no Katniss to step up. When the baker said his goodbye, he told Katniss he woul watch out for Prim, and Gale promised too. It's not like they were saying "well, this is it, i'll never see youo again" but when it comes to the hungergames, i guess you have to keep that in mind. Don't let love (whether for a friend, family, or something more) blind you for the negativity of life. Just because you think there is only happiness in the world, doesn't make the bad go away. Love just prevents you from seeing it. And if you're taken by suprise, much like Katnisss' mother was, you might be sucked into the maze of depression and denial, don't let that happen
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