When you love someone, I think the question that you ask is: can I help them be okay? Can I make their life better without ruining my own? What can I do to be there? To me, the heart of love is the acknowledgement that we have little control over how other people live and yet our fate is bound up with theirs. S is not the only person I feel that wa... See more

Love is, in part, the willingness to risk being seen as we are; to let go of what we’re supposed to be and, instead, just be . To stand still.