Ever wonder what makes a love story?

Perhaps you have thought about this once or three hundred times. After some serious meditaion, not to mention many hours sitting in front of the tube watching romantic comedies with my girls,which in my opinion come close but only toy with the true “love story” genre, I’ve come to one main conclusion: it has to have an element of impossibility.

If you think back on this you’ll agree that the stories that really work are the ones that have this common element in them. The Beauty and the Beast, West Side Story’s Tony and Maria, John Book and Rachel in Witness are just a few examples where love was the only perfect element and nothing else was given importance.
I think this really has a great lesson for all of us. Life often has many turns, some ups and some downs, for some mostly downs, but if you look back on your life and think on all the happy memories, you’ll see that the main strain or element that runs through them all was some element of impossible love. It is this feeling that awakens our spirits and creates memories that last forever. It is this impossible love that makes us reflect on who we are and what we have become. In essence it shapes us and creates a different you, hoepfully a better you because of it.

When developing a story, when thinking on your life… reflect on what experience you have had and infuse that honesty into it. You’ll find a great love story within, we’ve all had them.

Fernando Escobar