Two Sides of Love

What's the best thing about love? And what's the worst?

Love can transform your entire world.
Love can shatter your entire world.

The clearest thing about love is that it has the power to turn your insides completely upside down. Fall in love and you'll see—everything except your beloved suddenly seems utterly trivial.

Sometimes you'll be so immersed in love that whatever you do, you'll do it all with them in mind. Everything! To make them happy, to match their desires, you'll change many old habits, create many new ones. Standing before the mirror, you won't recognize yourself anymore. You'll think, Am I...am I really doing all this now!?

Truth be told, love is a strange and frightening thing. When you fall in love, you have to sacrifice so much, let go of so many attachments. Suddenly you have to take a great leap. Sometimes it happens that you fall so madly in love with someone, you're ready to sacrifice everything for them!

When people fall in love, they lose their wits, their common sense, their reasoning power. Love is an enormously complex matter—everyone explains it differently. But whatever else it may be, it's something precious.

Most likely, this love is the strangest paradox of all. This very love that breaks everything and reduces it to dust—love itself provides the acceptable explanations and logic for that destruction!