The Absurdity of Love

Sometimes I think rationality kills love. People want to be rational, practical, sensible – everything love is not. Love is a delusional absurdity. Love is an act of blindly stupid courage and optimism. You love knowing there are endings and pauses and pain. You give yourself openly to a person with the knowledge that tomorrow they might not be there anymore.

Sometimes I think rationality kills love. You meet someone you care for, but if things don’t go exactly your way – you run. Now, some cases are logical and straightforward and must be headed with caution. But, why give up on someone you care for? Why let hiccups and walls and damage take away what is so prized and precious to you?

Sometimes I think rationality kills love. The clock is ticking and you know by the end of the year he or she will be gone. You’ll go your separate ways but you give up happiness because the more you put it off, the more it’ll hurt. Yes, it’ll hurt – let it hurt. Take the year and give all you have to give. Love intensely. Yes, it’ll be brutal when they leave, but at least in your pain you’ll have the comfort of memories and not the knowledge of voluntary cowardice in the face of love.

We are promised nothing in this life. Nothing but death. This person you have in this moment and in this place was not promised to you. The odds of you finding each other in the ocean of humanity is absurd! But you found each other. Why waste the time you were given solely because it’ll hurt?

Embrace the insanity! Strip your soul for this person. This person you don’t want to lose. Why lose them before it is truly their time to go? Have the absolute idiocy and lunacy to take whatever time you were allotted and love. There is no room for rationality in the house of love.

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