About Love

Love is not always passion and a storm of emotions, not always courtship and a wedding. Sometimes love is quietly watching the beloved person, secretly sighing in solitude—without daring to and fearing to ruin the happiness of the person you love by breaking and twisting both your life and theirs, and that of your friend who trusts you. Sometimes love is surprise at the twists of life and the jokes of fate, when an old and unremarkable one receives such a wonderful gift, and someone else—young and full of promise—has to hide their romantic feelings, comforting themselves with feelings of duty and nobility…