Before The Devil Knows You're Dead

We live in a world with grand temptation. How are we to believe that there is such an ideal of lasting love..

Finn met Stella at Ms.Dinsmoor's estate at a very young age. She was the first to make him feel anything remotely close to love since his family abandoned him to his uncle Joe. The lifetimes he wished he could be with such a refined girl. How his heart broke when she jetted off to France for her studies. How his heart was mended through his art, through his lifelike drawings of Stella. How he was discovered and sent off to New York City. How he magically ran into Stella on a beautiful New York day. How she tried to be with Finn over and over again to only break his heart. How when, one day in their future they would meet at Ms. Dinsmoor's estate and pick up from there. 

For those that believe in everlasting love, whether they had to wait for it.

I love you like the stars above, I'll love you till I die, Juliet. The Montagues and The Capulets lived a life of hatred for one another. They hoped to portray these feelings towards their teenage children, but fate would have it a different way. The way Romeo fell for Juliet is ever so endearing. The soliloquy's they made **through the pen of Shakespeare** would have been shouted from a mountain top if they had such a chance. The destruction of all that was their love because of their families adversities. As sad as they ended, they chose to die with untainted love for one another.

For those that believe in everlasting love, whether they had to sacrifice for it.

At first sight, Noah was immediately taken by Allie. He did everything in his being just to get a simple date with her. The cost of living a rich and rewarding life her parents had chosen for her versus the life she felt around Noah, feeling his touch, reeling in his kiss; was more real to her than any money could buy. Her strong sense of self, but knowing as a youth in that day, not much could happen..led her to leave that love behind and eventually fall "in love" with another man. When Noah made all his dreams come true in that house, all the effort he put into it knowing, that one day Allie would see it and maybe see him in another light made him strive for it all. And yes, she fell once again. The lasting relationship they had, how he never left her side throughout all they had faced...when they became old and gray.

For those that believe in everlasting love, when you have to wait and sacrifice for it.

I do believe in love. It may not be the story tales of 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens, 'Romeo and Juliet' by Shakespeare or 'The Notebook' by Nicolas Sparks but what I believe is out there, pure and full of la joie de vivre. It will be everlasting because at the end of the day, true love needs to strive to be with a person of similar positive beliefs, no matter how much opposite in life we are. Love is love and we all deserve to believe in its being.

**when you look in the mirror and wonder where that soulmate (of yours) is, just remember that said person is looking right back in their own mirror and thinking the same thing**

hazah!