"Love and Soul : had sought, and after some trials found each other. And that union can never be broken." -Hamilton
She was a mortal, with an immortal beauty. Envied by her kind, she is lusted by men. Aphrodite loathed her and she was scorned. More than anything else, she was a lover. She was was mistaken, she was hurt, she was tested.
She was real.
It was in college that I first came upon the synopsis of the Cupid-Psyche story. I was too busy with the other Olympian dieties to really concentrate on them. It was only until recently that I was able to delve deeper into what she had to go through...that made her all deserving to be exalted right beside her beloved.
When she married her so-called monster of a husband, she accepted her fate. And in darkness she savored the tender loving of the invisible beast. She's got all that she needed but she is deprived from seeing him. This is blind faith - believing beyond reasons. A requirement in relationships, that at one time or another, each of us has failed to submit into.
The heart is what makes us human. Because it is restless, she discovered that she wanted more than just what she already has. Wanting to go far beyond feeling his caresses, she had to see him. As upon first sight, she lost him. She violated his trust and thus, causing things to come in between them.
In search for the love that she once lost, she had to undergo ardous tests from Venus (ugh, in-laws! Even the mythologies, describe them exactly the way they really are!). Fortunately, fate was kind enough to provide her with the armaments in all her battles. It was her will to find Cupid that got her through. Love, indeed, finds a way.
And the most important part is, when they reunited, they have forgiven. Love does not keep a record of wrongs. It forgives and learns...and never stops forgiving until the other learns.
Psyche means "soul". Just like her, the human spirit is restless, blindly trusts in love, endures hardships and forgives offenses.
It is real.
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