earthsquatter

You can always find someone to love, and to love you in return. Question is whether the love lasts. Or maybe the question is – should we expect it to last?

If we can agree that everything is transient and that there is no absolute in life, then why do we stubbornly hold on to the notion that love will and should last? Why do we have such an expectation on something so intangible? If we squash such unrealistic belief right from the beginning, will the ensuing disillusionment be that much easier to handle?

And yet – foolishness.

In our pursuit of a soothing balm for the human heart, in our pursuit for something that is so unreliable, so untrustworthy – we play games. We dangle, we tease, we advance, and we retreat. Why do we take such thoughtless liberty with something that has the potential to be so destructive?

And yet - irrationality.

Like moths drawn to light, we know what is the price to pay, we know what the end is. But we continue to search, to seek, to hope. No matter how pointless, no matter long it takes, we carry on, hurtling towards the edge, risking it all for that elusive thing call love.

The indescribable folly of us all.