Love and How It Transforms

 Falling in love is a beautiful thing. When you're with the person you care about, everything feels complete. And then, truly, you don't need much to be happy. You can pass time wonderfully just holding their hand, eating ice cream together, sharing stories about childhood memories or the things that frighten you.
  
 There's no feeling more wonderful than falling in love. But this feeling is temporary. With love comes a series of accommodations—small accommodations and large ones. The kind of clothes you used to love wearing, you perhaps no longer wear, because they don't like them. Your favorite colored clothes, watch, or shoes get worn less than before, because they simply don't like that color. You never used to watch horror movies, but now you're compelled to watch them because they're their preference. Before meeting them, you used to fall asleep by midnight, but now, to fulfill their wishes, you stay up late talking with them even when your eyes are heavy with sleep.
  
 You even find yourself compelled to reshape your thoughts about life and career to suit their mind. Perhaps you prefer government jobs; they don't. You want to start a business; they don't want that. You want to go abroad; they want to stay in the country. Even your food menu undergoes various changes as you try to align with them. This is how your entire lifestyle transforms in countless ways. How much people change when they fall in love!
  
 Then again, you'll notice that without your own awareness, a kind of objection begins forming in your mind about all these things. Through some of your behaviors and words, they too can sense these issues. Then perhaps they become upset and stay silent, or express their discomfort. They listen to your words attentively, but you yourself can understand that they don't quite like these objections of yours, or aren't taking them easily.
  
 One day they suddenly say, "Fine, do whatever your heart desires, just stay by my side—that's all that matters." After they agree, your heart feels strangely unsettled again!
  
 Love is more or less like this. Love is accepting various things while battling with yourself. Love is emerging from the doubts that form within you about different matters. Love is sharing joys and sorrows, and whatever may happen, unless absolutely helpless, not letting go of each other's hand. Love is accepting the accommodations between yourselves, because at the end of the day, after everything, the two of you feel peace and comfort only when you're together.