Love

"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."
-St. Augustine


I really believe this quote. I found it on the internet while trying to help cait find some quotes for her fb page. It really fit for my life as it stands now and my friends. Even the ones who have passed on. there are some people who will never be separate from you. No matter how many years you spend apart or not talking you can always reconnect because you are one, not two separate being. I think this quote really helped me with A. He and I can completely sever all ties and never speak again. We aren't one. We are two very different and separate trees. Now D on the other hand, I don't think i could ever be separate from. All that is left is for time to tell me if he is a love or a friend tree.