Reply #6: Oodles of infatuations, crushes, etc, in my life, but

[ForrestGump]

I don't know if I can really count them against The Big One, or how much so, certainly as a fully requited thing. I'm honestly not sure where the line is or how many times I've crossed it. I do suspect that I'm likely to cross that line once and for all, unequivocally, with the feeling of an explorer: that I've followed a similar route before but that the trail was never so clear. But the very unfamiliarity of the terrain -- more a vague familiarity, like walking a familiar route while wearing 3D glasses -- provokes more than a few questions.

Can you feel it, right away? Sometimes, at least? And can it be so hard to ignore or rationalize even if you want to restrain yourself by telling yourself that it's too sudden, too perfect, and every inch a very nice little infatuation and should be relished as such? How do you know if it's true love? Jump right in and find out? I know there is such a thing as true love -- I mean romantic love, not the agape or unconditional love that I could never doubt the universality of -- because I've seen The Princess Bride a b(r)azillion times. Enquiring minds want to know...

There's more I could say on that right now, but...


..that's all I have to say about that.


"I may be a smart man, but I don't know what love is" (or something like that) :-)