response?

i have never been in love so i can only guess, but here is what i know. it is a vague term, and an incredibly double sided term. behind every great love there is also great hate. sometimes, it isn't even like they are two sides of the same coin, but they become actually one in the same. while it is capable of terrible things, the thing that makes it special, arguably the most unique human emotion or state of being, is that, in the case of love, it makes us put someone else's happiness before our own. what other circumstance induces something like that? it's miraculous. but why limit love to one person? why is it not possible to embrace any friend, any beautifully flawed human being on this earth, with the same kind of unconditional compassion? why must there be distinctions? because once the distinction is drawn between one person and the other, doesn't that make the love conditional? circumstantial?

i'm asking for a little much.

i can try to pin it down, like a butterfly to a display case, but at the end of the day, as long as i have not experienced it flutter through the air, i will never know its true nature. but i do know, however, that i love art. i love everything about it, all of its beauty and all of its bullshit. it makes me feel free.