Friday, May 11, 2007

What kind of love story do you have?
http://web.tickle.com/tests/lovestory/

Second chances is your primary love story!

The Second Chances love story is rooted in nostalgia. Whether you're longing for the ex you haven't seen in a year, or are reminiscing about the crush you never connected with 10 years ago, this kind of searching is indicative of more than dissatisfaction with your current romantic relationships. Whether you do it consciously or not, most people who migrate towards the Second Chances love story either want to revise a past decision, confront someone you couldn't at the time, or revert back to a specific point in time. Do you ever wish you could return to a different period in your life? This story is repeated more times than you could imagine. Take the film "Peggy Sue Got Married," for instance. In it, a housewife faints at her high school reunion and wakes up in her senior year at high school with the chance to change her destiny. The root of your story too, may arise from these feelings, that you need to reconnect with a time in your life when love was a larger focus of your life and responsibilities were much fewer. But it also might stem from other things as well. Your love story may arise out of regret for the past, or a desire to go back to when things were easier. Did you have a particularly easy, fun adolescence? Have you recently suffered a loss — perhaps a divorce or the death of a loved one — that's made you long for the period before that incident? Are you acutely aware that decisions carry with them a strong impact? Do you spend a lot of time analyzing your decisions, going over things you've said or done in your mind? Or are you simply sentimental, in love with old books and classic films, as well as your own memories? It's no wonder this is such a common love story. How many films feature starlets staring off dreamily into a recollection of days past? How many books reveal heroes and heroines kept apart in the beginning, only to find themselves together at the end? Romantic films and books often use this archetypal tale of paradise lost and regained to create some of the greatest love stories of all time. "Casablanca" is one of the greatest renditions of this love story. In it, Rick, played by Humphrey Bogart, is haunted by a brief romance with Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), shattered by circumstances beyond their control. "The Way We Were," another classic, follows a similar story line. In "American Beauty," Kevin Spacey plays a man who tries to recapture his youth through an affair with a teenage girl. These stories are so powerful precisely because they are so easy to relate to. This historical love story overpowers everybody at one point or another. How this tried and true love story plays out in individual lives, varies from person to person.

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