Fugit Amor

I’ve always liked this sculpture but I never really appreciated the meaning and thought behind it. Fugit Amor, or Fugitive Love, is a part of August Rodin’s La Porte de l’Enfer or The Gates of Hell. Fugit Amor represents the battle of love being lost. It depicts a fleeting love that slips through the fingers as if it was nothing but air, a tormenting lack of fulfillment as this website put it so eloquently.

At present, it’s representative of how I’m feeling right now. But I have to tell myself that there’s no point in wanting to be with someone that doesn’t want to be with me. I have to let her go and that’s exactly what I’ve been trying to do.

Thankfully, all of my friends have come to help me and guide me through my troubled times and I’m learning that while I was with her there were a lot of other things that I couldn’t cultivate in myself, and in my network of friends.

It becomes easier as time passes, but it will never be easy.