Knowing I was a big fan of Elizabeth Taylor Mick mentioned early this morning that she had died. The world has lost a great actress. Her career spanned seven decades and who could forget her as a beguiling young beauty in National Velvet or her great roles as Virginia Woolf? She was also extremely beautiful but it seems that her beauty did not bring her great happiness.
As well as being remembered for her acting, and winning two academy awards, she is synonymous in some people’s minds with marriage and divorce. Eight marriages included her marriage to and divorce from Richard Burton twice.
She will also be remembered for her humanitarian work championing and raising awareness and funds for Aids and HIV. She was to many people the epitome of the woman Cleopatra and in my opinion was one of the most beautiful women this world and the movie screen has ever seen.
Sadly, beauty was not enough to ensure marital happiness, nor was it enough to save her from health, alcohol and drug problems.
There may not be many, if any, of us here at families.com who have been blessed with such great beauty and who will have such a big impact on the world, but it made me think that just maybe being beautiful is not always an advantage. Maybe having people adoring you can result in not being able to find true love, not knowing how to recognize it and deal with. Maybe her life would have been different if Michael Todd had lived. Who knows? And I can’t say I agree with her comment regarding her relationship with Richard Burton that ‘Having an out-and-out, outrageous, ridiculous fight is one of the greatest exercises in marital togetherness.’
Her death just made me think that I’d rather have one person who loves me for who I am, faults and all, than have millions adoring me and going from one relationship to another looking for that lasting treasure of abiding love.
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