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“I love you.” These words have a long example of meanings. “I love you, mom (dad, parental figure, family member).” “I love you, friend, as if you were my sibling.” “I love this rock.” Sentiments, however, strengthen and become more dynamic and confused, and we enter a maelstrom when situations where “I love you” is said in a carnal rite is related. We sometimes worry if our partner is telling the truth, or if we might be guilty of lying ourselves; sometimes love quickly turns into its better-understood alter ego, hate, and everything falls apart; and then we question love’s true meaning in dire frustration. In this instance, it appears to be slightly harder to love.
And for a time I doubted the presence of this chimera—this philosopher’s stone—this scientific implausibility. “Surely nature is in no need of such a thing in its grand design of propagating the Earth with a wide selection of healthy genes through natural selection,” I once thoughtfully sighed. I was wrong. Nature gives us the raw material—the pretense of love, that strong passion we can feel for another. It is up to us to mold that into a fine example of happiness; for love is simply that strong state of humor, guided by good reason and judgemnent.

I have given the idea of love much thought—and even research—and, though this gives me much pain to postulate, being a romantic, I fear that “true love” goes against nature’s ultimate design. Couples having multiple partners in their past is not only a common thing, but in the practical realm it populates the earth with a diverse selection of genes (natural selection says this is a good thing). Couple’s swear they’re in love and always will be, only to forever seperate within months or years for varying reasons: unfaithfulness, loss of excitement within the relationship, and the like; sometimes the reason is a trifle. This doesn’t make true love impossible to find as much as it makes it incredibly hard.
It is easy to find a tolerably enjoyable relationship; however, it is so hard to find love; and I fear that I may erringly proclaim to find it only to be heart broken when the unimaginable happens.
Just a thought.