Love

It's the topic of nearly every song ever written. Every poem ever recited. Every movie ever committed to the reel. Every novel ever published.

I've been thinking a lot about love lately. Lots and lots of thoughts swirling about my head. I see a movie and the two lovers overcome great odds and still find their way to each other. I read a book and a pair of unlikely people end up together in the end. I listen to songs and wonder at how a whole love story can be written in a four minute set of lyrics.

I look in my own life and the lives of the people around me and I have inevitably come to one conclusion: love is a complete and total, unequivocal, without a doubt, absolutely unavoidable, big fucking pain in the ass.