Cupid and Psyche

Psyche was the youngest of the 3 daughters of the king, and she was by far the most beautiful of the three. She was so beautiful that people started to forget about Venus who was the Goddess of love and beauty. To stop this, Venus told her son Cupid to shoot a horrible monster with one of his arrows so that the monster and Psyche would fall in love. When Cupid saw how beautiful she was, he pricked himself with an arrow and fell in love with her. No one wanted to marry Psyche and an oracle told her that she would marry a monster. Her parents sent her away and she was taken care of by invisible servants. A man came and became her husband, but she was told she could never see him. She became homesick and asked to see her sisters. Her sisters convinced her to see look at him and kill him because he was a monster waiting to kill her. One night she found him and accidentally woke him. She was surprised that it was Cupid, not a monster and he immediately disappeared along with the palace. Psyche asked Venus for help, and she made her do tasks before she could win Cupid back. He found out about this and made Venus stop. Cupid and Psyche then married and lived happily together and Psyche became a goddess.

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This is a statue of Cupid kissing his new wife Psyche. 

I have not seen too many great love stories play out in movies (I cannot stand rom-coms) or in real life, but a great love story that will always stick with me is Disney's Beauty and the Beast. This story reminded me of the movie because Psyche thought Venus was a monster, and Belle's prince was a monster. She passed up other normal men and fell in love with a beast because he was more sincere than the others. It is a rare example that shows love truly is blind. People can fall in love despite having huge differences in appearance, personality, interests, or spirituality. It is quite sad, but I cannot think of one good love story in real life. Sure people fall in love, get married, and start a family all the time, but there is nothing similar to the dramatic plots in the movies. I guess the "Royal Wedding" was the best love story I've ever seen in real life, but the only great part about it was the fact that it was royal..