Love and Candour

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Love and Candour Everyone enjoys talking about love. Some prefer to think of it as a great mysterious force driving the universe. For others, it is an entity of dormant despair. But what is it about love that keeps us fascinated? Is it the fact that we do not know for sure what it is? Or is it the interest in the obsessing nature of love? The individual view that I take is that we are constantly searching for the unknown. However, it is a familiar unknown, as most of us are experiencing love in one form or another - lasting family ties, friends to cherish, pets that you cannot bear to part with when you leave home for Concord...And yet, we are still searching. Maybe, we can blame it on pop culture, singing its praises for love and serenading us with the melancholic excitement of unrequited love. We all think that we can be a better version of Tom Hansen in 500 Days of Summer – one that could have been a bit more interesting or captivating, and maybe then, he could’ve gotten the girl at the end of the movie. My teenage years, involving countless books on the subject, chick-flicks(should be chick-licks) , late night discussions with best friends and an annoying but super-duper awesome boyfriend (who has edited in the laudatory adjectives in front of his title – what does this clause mean? ), has taught me that love is definitely not all that it is cracked up to be. It is possible that it is more than that, yet, it could be less, because there are a few definite things that I can say I cannot be parted with, and lesser the number of things and people that I love. (horrendous paragraph – the last sentence is especially bad – don’t know what she means!) On love I can probably say, from a short (literally) and inexperienced standpoint is that it should be passionately happy, and that it should be mutual. If it does not make you aching elation seep out from all
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