Tea Break

When a loved one leaves, many people say that time heals everything.

Some say it with such conviction that it sounds like far more than empty consolation. But the people left behind often don't believe it. Those who tend to obsess over things, or cling to even the tiniest bit of self-deception, find it impossible to believe or accept.

People always say that one day, the pain will fade. The words usually go like this: One ordinary day, you'll remember it and think, it was nothing after all.

The blood and tears after giving your whole heart, and the passion and tenderness you felt at the time, are fitting counterparts. Whether a tranquil future was ever written into what came next, how important could that possibly be?

That's just how life is.

Sometimes love is about finding someone who matches the picture of love in your mind and your own expectations. Some people believe in Aristophanes' myth; others believe in the security of a stable, respectable family.

Things are easier to understand when you put labels on them: what the clever see through, the foolish refuse to believe. What the foolish find, the clever don't understand.

Making a choice with your heart is no different from baking a perfect cake by strictly following the proportions.

Some people have trusted reason almost as if it were a religion. If their emotions aren't under control, they always lose their bearings.

What if, one day, you experience the incommensurable connection between the two?

Then one day, at last, you think: Isn't the reason you're alive to see this strange and wondrous spectacle?

Every day, you have to face so many questions born of assumptions, weaving your answers among them, often with countless threads tangled together.

It makes you wonder: So what?