Love can drive you insane. It has started families just as well as ended them. It has fueled wars, ruined and ended lives, changed the face of the planet.

At the same time, Love has been the driving force of change for the better, giving people hope and something to look forward to.

Love has taught me more about life than anything else. It has taught me about the way the World works.

It has taught me about how beautiful and horrible every single person in this World is capable of being. It has shown me that we are the cause and the cure to all our woes.

Love has introduced me to me.

Love is perfect – the one thing in the entire universe that is entirely perfect. And being perfect it must hold everything within it – both good and evil, both beauty and ugliness, both peace and war.

Love is the single power in this universe that is perfection. It is mutable, multifaceted. It can grow in strength and dissipate.

Love is whatever you wish it to be. Or rather, Love is whatever you make it to be.

Understanding Love and what it allows for is arguably the most important lesson a person can learn in his or her lifetime.

It is the one thing that everybody in the World longs for. In a sense, even sociopaths wish to be loved – even if only by themselves.

Love is what drives you to act.

It drives you to create change, to become a different person. Different and not better because the truth is love does not always turn us into better individuals.

It does not always make you a better person – sometimes it makes you a whole lot worse.

Love is, more than anything else, a change. Love necessarily changes you because it is, itself, the change. You love your friends and family because they changed your life for the better.

They showed you another, better version of reality. They did not simply add to your life; they changed your life, changed your perspective, changed what you thought it meant to be alive.

And then we have the most coveted of all Loves: romantic Love. Romantic Love is by far the most dangerous of Loves, but for this very same reason, it is the most powerful.

It has the ability to change you to such an extent that afterwards, you are not even recognizable to yourself.

What you experience is most certainly Love, and if it is Love, then clearly Love could not last forever. The fact is that you can love someone forever; yet, it will not be in the manner that you likely thought it would be.

Whether it is our culture that ruins Love or whether we simply allow the intense emotions we experience to define Love in its entirety the fact is that because we misunderstand what it means to love, we ruin it.

But if someone you once loved, someone whom you thought you would spend your life with, share your life with, be with until the end, changes your life to such a great extent, then you will love him forever.

It does not matter if you want to. It does not matter if that person moved on with his life, fell for somebody else, even became a different person; you will – always and forever – love that person.

This does not mean you will not find someone else to love. It does not mean you can’t move on with your life, get married, start a family and be incredibly happy sharing your life with another person.

But it does mean you will still never entirely let go. Because you just can’t. He has changed you so greatly that letting go is not possible without letting go of yourself.

It is sad but also beautiful. To think that one person could affect another in such a manner is remarkable. It tells us more about life and Human nature than anything else ever could.

It may bring a tear to your eye from time to time, but without tears every so often, even smiles lose their meaning.