Love.

Take love.  What in the world are we doing?!  If we are evolutionary beings, I guarantee that nature would have taken one look at love and ran away as fast as it could and never have looked back.  There are much easier and less disastrous ways to keep us attached to one person, if that was the ultimate goal.  Why would anyone in their right mind spend their entire existence fighting for something that 99% of the time only ends up crushing their bones to dust.  To anyone who has ever had a broken heart or unrequited love, they know this bone crushing agony oh too well.  And they must seriously question the statement, "It is better to have loved, than never to have loved at all" after such devastating events.  It must have been the person who's "never loved at all" that came up with such a thought.  But the mystery is that it wasn't at all.  For someone who's blessed enough to have truly loved, there is nothing greater.  It's the ultimate drug that awakens desires you never knew existed until you've tasted of it.  And once the dark places of your soul have even the smallest flickering light of love, the absence of it causes the walls of your being to tremble until the light once again is ignited . Which is why the light of love is blinding.  When we are filled with love we want to hope all things, believe all things and we certainly try to endure all things, no matter how dysfunctional or destructive.  Why?  Because we are created for the highest purpose to love and be loved.  If we have all the riches and pleasures of this world, if we travel and discover every hidden place, if we change and save all of humanity, but don't have love, it is worthless.  We gain nothing and we leave nothing behind.  We are emptier than when we started because we come to the end of the road and realize nothing else satisfies but love.  It is everything good and pure in this life.  But love never comes easy. What great thing ever has?  Though love feels like the miracle, what is even more the feat is sustaining it.  Love is a fight, and a well worthy one at that. But it is never kept without that fight.  There is a force against us and all of hell will try to keep us from it.  If you're not ready to fight, it is over before it ever began. Love never stood a chance. Your zeal and courage must be greater than your fears and then love will prevail.