Hey, we're getting somewhere :) I do hope, though, that this spontaneous foray into creative writing isn't distracting you too much from answering the question posed earlier in the thread ;-)

Anyway ...

.. Your article interested me on many levels. I'm no expert on love either, despite the amount of practice I've had I could, however, empathise with much of what you wrote. In my early years love was a very confusing matter but, like you, there came a time when it started to make sense. Unfortunately, I'm a generation older than you and I've had time to go full full circle and find it confusing all over again. Still, it's more fun this time around!

It's interesting that you emphasise the differences between people. Certainly they exist and it's the subtle nuances between us that keeps life vibrant and interesting, but perhaps people are more similar than they are different? I'll propose an idea: maybe it's our similarities that makes art possible?

By way of explanation, consider what it would be like if everyone spoke a different language? Nobody would be able to communicate effectively. Speaking a common language helps us to understand each other. Likewise, that our emotions share a common language and experience means that an artist can communicate through their work with us at an emotional level. A sad film, an uplifting song, a funny joke, a romantic love poem - they all work because people get them, they elicit the same emotions that the artist had in mind when creating their work.

So when someone writes about love as you did, or Byron pens his love poems, or Bronte writes her love stories, perhaps they are illustrating just how similar we all are, that we should understand them and respond to them in such similar ways.

What do you think?