Some Thoughts on Love
Today I came to an epiphany as I was writing an email to my former girlfriend. I realized that to love is to want or need someone else. My roommate is getting ready to marry a wonderful girl in May. What makes them such a wonderful couple is not that they have perfectly complementary personalities, and not that they always agree perfectly. They actually see the world in very distinct and different ways. Yet they need each other; they can't live without each other. Each person is like water to the other's thirst, or oxygen to the other's lungs. Relationships take work and effort, but if one person needs the other, then work seems easy and toil inconsequential. Sometimes couples first must work to find a necessity for each other, but without it relationships are extremely hard. One of the foremost reasons many people give for breaking up is that the other person just didn't know what he or she wanted. I think what this really means is that the other person just didn't really want or need them at the level that they needed to be needed or wanted.
posted by Joel @ 3:19 PM
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