I’ve struggled with the concept of love for years. There are always new facets and misunderstood realities that people reveal, discover, accept, ignore. I’ve always imagined myself capable of loving another person in more ways than one, or capable of two kinds of love. But the topic has arisen again, and I find myself unable to understand the difference between romance and love. How could one exist without the other? How can I love without the flutter, the euphoria, all the things that confuse so many to invoke “love” in the first place?<\/p>\n

The idea that love takes work, and effort, and sometimes unrewarded self-sacrifice, is still completely foreign to me. I probably wouldn’t call that love. It would be “selflessness”, or “obedience”, or “patience”. But those are all qualities of love, and now we have arrived at the other side, the right-to-left definition. And once again I wish I could see the big picture, or at least farther out than my own tiny plans.<\/p>\n

Let love have its way with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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