On a pedestal

Why do poets, writers and even we normal people put the unrequited kind of love so high on a pedestal? Why does that love look so much more purer than any other love? Esp the love which is reciprocated..it does not seem that ‘good enough’ why? We want what we can’t get and what we…

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Thinking after reading Neils Lyhne

(Niels Lyhne) Is love this intense only when there is yearning? Only when you don’t get what/who you love? Why is that kind of love more pure, more ‘something’ (not getting proper word)? Why, when you get what you yearned for, you start taking it for granted? The thrill, the yearning subsides? ~ that’s why…