(Me thinking of that thing called love)

I was talking to my father the other day about love, and he told me about what his mentor had to say about the nature of a crush…

Well, what was the true nature of a crush? Before then I had never given them much thought, except for when I had them. And even then it was just doodling names and hearts on the edges of school papers.

What I have heard is that a crush has to do with personal projection. Apparently everybody… Every person on this earth has a part of himself or herself that is utterly perfect. It is pure, it is unique, it is good—it is divine.

From afar we might see someone that we feel drawn to, but do not really know. We project our own inner perfection onto the other person, and we see it in them. In an instant they become divine—we get a crush.

The crush seems important, beyond the understanding of those watching. It is only when we step closer and get to know the crush that things might change. They open their mouth, and we see their cracks... all their faults are noticed. Suddenly they are no longer divine… they are human.

I think that it is when you can see the cracks and still see that true perfection that belongs to a person… that is love.