The Weight of Love

The story of Pomona and Vertumnus is like a sign of hope for most teenage girls of modern time. Girls are desperate to fit into society's image of the perfect girl, set down by models, fashion trends and mainstream propaganda. This makes girls desperate to be like the image media has set as a standard. They try to change themselves so they can achieve this (in some ways they are disguising themselves to get people's attention). What this story says is that all you need to do is be yourself and people will like you just as you are, with no need of copying others or changing who they are. People frequently get tricked by the sense that all people care about is the outside part (which in most cases is sadly true), but there are some cases in which what really matters is the inside.


I was impressed with Myrrhas' story. Who would have thought that Aphrodite was so powerful she could make her fall in love with her own father. To me, this was a little grotesque, and very cruel from the goddess. Who said falling in love is an essential part of life? Of course she is the goddess of love and wants everyone to depend on her, but love isn't necessarily a sexual relationship. Love can be found in many other ways, like love to your family or love to your homeland, etc. I even think life would be better if there was no need for couple relationships. To me, that type of relationship is full of lies, cheating and eventual suffering. For example Myrrha's love for her father caused her a lot of grief, desperation and sadness in the end. She even made her own father suffer after he discovered he was with his own daughter. I really think love (couple relationships) is a much overestimated thing.