- The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Well, how would you define love anyway? Its varies, right? To be aware of your feelings and knowing that you don't love a thing/a person is something I would definitely choose over facing a confusion of waves of infatuation and curiosity. I don't think you should blame anyone when they are being honest, even if it ends with your heart being broken. On the other hand, there are many who would rather pretend to be blissful in ignorance than to face the truth. Here is something I will never really be able to comprehend. Maybe it is because it is too intimate and personal or I still have a lot to learn.
- from Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
I might as well suppose that these lines were written for me.
Wouldn't this be a lot easier to grasp if we looked at relationships between people from an economic viewpoint, analysing the cost-benefits of dating a particular someone with another, using game theory to calculate whom to ask out on a date or predicting a break-up based on the gradual decrease of a person's marginal utility? This is not as bad as it looks, people do practice it, if not for material gains, then due to ego-centric reasons. However, the inclusion of 'economics' would make it absurd. Love and relationships themselves would become a travesty. After all, is it not a popular notion that love is unconditional? (although I think it is more close to compromising or just one's hormones acting up "D). Clearly, I should not be writing on this subject.
In any case, if I ever fall head over heels in love one day, I may take it all back. Till then, ephemeral affections will suffice.
(Pardon the language)
I seriously have no clue how I got here from reading about attempt to commit a crime. It is unfair to have such a short-attention span :(
