The Cage of Love

Why is it that heartache almost always precede after the act of first love? Things would be simpler if timing were not a crucial factor in romance. If love would transcend our different points in our foreign journeys. Rob, you say you are ready to take the fateful jump, but won't do it lonesome. Love, you say, is a two way thing. Your vision and hopes are turning bleak and suspenseful now; you never imagined it like this. But what do you do with all your passion and smitten feelings and sentimental attachment about this relationship when you have to face the possibility that it will not go your way this time? Will you hold on to them and wait, suffering in silence? Or at last, will another road be taken?

I believe that the crossroads after heartache is this: to move on from what the universe that brought you (appreciate the lesson) or to engulf yourself with sadness (hold on to it so tightly for months). I know that there are few issues that will destroy you faster than matters of the heart. You are, after all, an emotional, albeit resilient being.

Over the years, I've held ...