What Is Love #1

A Thing You Do Alone

I am trying to make some sense of the act of being alive and I can’t seem to. Maybe the trying is the problem. I have the gnawing feeling that it has something to do with love, but what in fact is love?

I was about twelve years old when it dawned on me that the only person in the world who is always with you is… you. This revelation made it feel like I was gaining insight into a secret of the universe. No one told me this. I just figured it out on my own. I was incredibly proud of myself because it was true and undeniable and was the exact…