"Love is composed of a single soul in two bodies, hating everybody else." (via imgur)
Ahhh love. I don't know what it is and my friends and co-workers tell me I'll never experience it until I give up my narcissistic ways of beginning articles with anecdotes about myself. But I've heard about love, and I'd like to think I know it when I see it.
Take redditor NuclearThane, for example. He's in love! So in love, in fact, he has a girlfriend who made a jar of 101 things she loves about him. Among them was the universal law of compatibility:
"I love... that we dislike the same people."
Ahhh dislike, the core of all love. Who isn't relieved when they find out they don't like the same people? After all, I believe the saying goes, "He who is the enemy of my enemy is the person I want to spend the rest of my life with."
NuclearThane doesn't show us the rest of those love notes, but here's my guess for a few:
I love...
... that you never waste your money on charity.
... that you care enough to go through my texts to make sure I'm not cheating.
... how we only talk to each other at parties.
... we can sit in separate rooms and quietly resent each other.
... how neither of us have spoken to our family in years.
...how every single day with you is one step closer to death.
Man, what an inspiration these two are. It is my hope that someday everyone can have the love to hate like these two have. In the meantime, the rest of us not so lucky in love will have to settle for sitting alone, turning the volume off our computers, and loving ourselves.
(by Myka Fox)