"if i was orpheus i would simply not turn around" yes you would. if you were orpheus and you loved eurydice, you would. to love someone is to turn around. to love someone is to look at them. whichever version of the myth — he hears her stumble, he can't hear her at all, he thinks he's been tricked — he turns around because he loves her. that's why it's a tragedy. because he loves her enough to save her. because he loves her so much he can't save her. because he will always, always turn around. "if i was orpheus i would simply —" you wouldn't be orpheus. you wouldn't be brave enough to walk into the underworld and save the person you love. be serious
man this is so reductive and closed minded. there’s no one supreme right way to love someone, and to say someone who wouldn’t turn around is someone who wouldn’t ever go try and save their love in the first place is such a shit take. like, i hate this stupid fucking post and how people have pedestaled it to the point that any dissent is just met with
“well you can’t have loved them that much anyway if you think you wouldn’t turn around”
like fuck man this stupid post has done irreparable damage and now i have to see the stupid shit take of “an orpheus who doesn’t turn around is an orpheus who would’ve never gone in the first place” everywhere like an invasive species
