My Cupid

I wasn't able to upload any images today using wifi in the villa, so it had to wait to use a restaurant wifi this evening.

I opted for an image which is my' Cupid' today - my love and my obsession which can lead into mischief!

Cupid
Although Cupid featured in more than seventy Shakespeare plays and masques between 1500 and 1660, he appears on the Shakespearean stage only once, in Act I Scene ii of 'Timon of Athens'.
Cupid is not just a tool, a mere prop in Shakesperean plays, he is comic, even grotesque at times when the characters quip about love and courtship. Does Cupid discharge his arrows blindly, haphazardly? If he doesn't, if his acts are always deliberate but does he always "hit the mark"? Does he really have a will of his own? Can one resist his power?
As an iconic figure, Cupid, like the icon of Justice, is depicted as blindfolded - hence the addage "Love is blind." The force of Love appears to us to be random, or is something so overpowering it cannot be comprehended by the usual means of sight, only by feeling. As stated from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream':
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Shakespeare Love Quote: Romeo & Juliet – Act 2, Scene 1
“This bud of love by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet”