Unrequited Love Part 1

She looks happy, huh?
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Pepe Le Pew is instructive of many a male female catastrophe. He goes by outward appearances and falls for a feline of a different species.

She is not amused or enamored by his constant advances, which do not deter him in the least.

But his "love" for her is unrequited...unanswered, or if so, the answer is "no". Yet he continues on unwavering to pursue.

Napoleon Dynamite took lessons from Pepe, which is probably why he took Pedro under his wing.

Unlike our cartoon friend, most of us have experienced unrequited love at one time or another. Perhaps even many times and it begs a number of questions.

First, why would you want to be with anyone who would not truly desire to be with you?

That is the reverse of the old Groucho Marx joke that he would never "want to belong to any club that would have me as a member," which answers why some people abide years of unrequited love. They do not believe they deserve love from someone they admire and find beautiful.

Nonsense, I say.

Second, it often happens by mis-timing like the constant backfiring of your neighbors car which was last tuned in 1974. When she is ready you are not. When you become ready she is not. When it is corrected you are out of gas. It becomes something like Bunuel attempting to film Madame Butterfly or George Bush responding to New Orleans.

I know this from first hand knowledge. It's a little like the sketch in Woody Allen's Love and Death between Natasha and Sonya where Natasha spills her guts about unrequited love in Tolstoy's Russia:

Natasha: "I'm in love with Alexi
He loves Elisha
Elisha is having an affair with Leiv
Leiv loves Tatana
Tatana loves Simkin
Simkin loves me
I love Simkin but in a different way than Alexi
Alexi loves Tatana like a sister
Tatana's sister love Tregoran like a brother
Tregoran's brother is having an affair with my sister
who he likes physically, but not spiritually."

Sonya: "Natasha! It's getting a little late."

Natasha: "The firm of Mishkin and Mishkin is sleeping with the firm of Tuskoff and Tuskoff"

Sonya: "Natasha...to love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love, but then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore to be happy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness."

"I hope you are getting this down."
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God have mercy on us all in Part 2...