Known To None
...Whatever it is you're looking to learn about love... give it up. You won't find it. It simply doesn't exist, because there isn't a single person that knows a single thing about love... not the childhood sweethearts, not the serial divorcees, not the rolling stones who conflate it with seduction. It's something we don't appreciate, really... for four-hundred thousand years—or a mere two thousand, depending on who you ask—we've been hugging, kissing, fucking... marrying, cheating, separating... writing, painting, sculpting... fighting, dying, over love. Yet we're no better at it this century than any time past. It's still the same painful game it ever was. You'd think we'd have made at least a bit of progress. That there'd be more love today. Or perhaps that love today would be of a higher quality, and thus more durable or intense. Or if neither of these, then maybe we could at least reliably direct the flow of love, like energy... imagine if we discovered that love was some finite thing that couldn’t be created or destroyed, and we could send it here or there, to him or her, or wherever it was needed. But it's just not like this. You came in here with the idea that love is like steel or something, and that if you could just find the right secret you could pick up where the smith left off and forge a lasting love for yourself. But it's just not like this. No such secret exists. Don't you think it'd be common knowledge by now if it did? Imagine all the human brilliance that took us from sand to silicon, from savagery to society, from fire to the combustion engine... all this talent over the hundreds of millennia would have reduced love to a three-step formula, and in the twentieth century Henry Ford would have commoditized it. But it's just not like this. My advice, for you? Leave love to God, or mother nature, or the karmic essence, or whatever you prefer... leave it be with the blessings and curses... with the rain, earthquakes, and hurricanes. You want it? Then go play outside. You'll get your due...