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If one person really wants us, everyone does. But, if weâre alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.
âHave you ever heard of the book called the I Ching?â I asked her.
âNo, I havenât.â
âIt says that a city can be moved but not a well. Itâs around the well that lovers find each other, satisfy their thirst, build homes, and raise their children. But if one of them decides to leave, the well cannot go with them. Love remains there, abandoned â even though it is filled with the same pure water as before.â
Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation.
Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack courage to stretch out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life.
We have to take love where we find it, even if it means hours, days, weeks of disappointments and sadness.
âYou shouldnât have asked,â I said. âLove doesnât ask many questions, because if we stop to think we become fearful. Itâs an inexplicable fear; itâs difficult even to describe it. Maybe itâs the fear of being scorned, of not being accepted, or of breaking the spell. Itâs ridiculous, but thatâs the way it is. Thatâs wy you donât ask-you act. As youâve said many times, you have to take risks.â
Wait. This was the first lesson I learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behaviour in certain ways â and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives.
But by then, you donât know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embrassed about showing affection.
Love is like a trap. When it appears, we see only light, not its shadows.
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