True Love vs Infatuation

If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with? I reject this notion of settling with every fiber of my being, and my being is high in fiber. Maybe I'm a hopeless romantic or maybe I'm just hopeless, but the idea of settling for someone based solely on their geographic location is unfair to the settler and unfair to consolation prize. I realize that life isn't fair, but the things that we do have control over, we need to grab hold of the reigns and direct with fervor into our favor. I make circumstances in my life, I don't bow down to them; especially in matters of love.

Now, I'm not talking about some stalker who can't take 'no' or a restraining order for an answer. Love means never having to say "Yes, officer, that's the guy who put the hidden camera in my toilet bowl.” Unrequited love is when you think you're chasing a certain piece of tail, but it turns out you were only chasing your own.

Mutual Amor not sought through to its fruition is a universe dying to be born. I believe in destiny, but I also believe in reincarnation, so we could keep playing this song until we get it right, and it might be longer than "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” by the time we're finished. If you expect that your life is a winning lottery ticket, unscratched, and sitting at the bottom of some landfill somewhere, you know that you're going to have to go through some garbage, but you're willing to do so. "Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.” - Richard Bach

It takes two to play this game, however, so one desperate party does not a lasting love make. And "Love” must be clearly defined if we're to assign unyielding allegiance to the pursuit of it. Infatuation is Counterfeit Love, but many a desperate soul have gone down in flames, swearing to its authenticity. Once bitten, twice in denial. False idols wear false teeth.