On Love — Equilibrium

I have a friend who fell in love with another friend. He fell in love and she seemed to feel the same way. They started dating.

They felt very differently about one another .He wanted to talk every day. She didn’t. She wanted silences. He didn’t. So it went on. He smothered her with love and smothered harder to make up the light weight of her feelings. She was smothered with love and suffocated from the weight of his feelings.

They broke up.

She became free. He moved onto a girl who loved him equally as much as he loved her and now they are quite happy together.

Love is a mutual obligation. If one party does not love the other equally, the other party will be smothered or starved from affection. Even if the love is small or the love is great, even if the love swells up or shrinks, provided that the ratio remains equal, the couple will remain in equilibrium.

Is equilibrium happiness? No. Happiness is not as easy as that to achieve.