The answer to Jaida's question: Why complicate such a pure, beautiful experience with something so messy as dating?The romantic in me believes this whole heartedly.
The answer is simple and VERY OLD:
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
From Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem In Memoriam: Canto 27, 1850. Originally Posted by CivilBarrister
However....if we do this ONCE...ie., love and lose...(if that's the unfortunate outcome)....we seem to satisfy the premise...ie., we have loved...at least once.
In that case, we don't have to keep doing this over and over again.
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