As a person, I cannot help but fall in love. It just seems that during my creation, love was a part of, if not a highlighted portion of my schematic. The result of this is a somewhat natural tendency, if you will, to share that part of my design with other people: my family, friends and my girlfriend, all of whom I care about and love more than anything else. So, as a result it has been a life's mission to keep that care and love thriving.

There are a lot of approaches that I can take and have taken to this mission with each approaches' results blurring between person to person. When you care about someone and they care about you, it can, for the most part, be really easy. Yet, the inevitable rough patch arises between you and your brother or girlfriend or friend. Whomever it may be, when rough patches rear their ugly head you come to crossroads as to what you should do.

For some, space becomes your closest ally, but for others, that space proves to create a barrier wedging between what once was and what it turned out to be. Then when things are running away from you, it becomes easy to want to put that thing in a vice so it can't escape; don't do that. While the ultimate goal is to make sure that you don't lose someone you care about, the result is unknown until it happens and that carries a lot of weight.

When you care about someone so much that they seemingly envelop your entire being you are vulnerable to what life may decide. No, I don't mean that life is an active force that is deliberately trying to rip apart everything you've built up. Yet, it is inevitable for challenges to arise in your life that simultaneously are out of your control and are variables that change whatever life was before their arrival. It happens all of the time: people move away, other people enter the picture and mutual interests dissolve. Anything that exists today runs the chance that it won't be the same thing tomorrow or even erase itself from your world: but that doesn't mean that you should let the fear of that possibility end your passion.

I would never dilute the relationship I have with anyone to the hallmark or fairy tale versions we see on T.V. Things don't always end happily, but that shouldn't deter me from going on late night drives with my girlfriend with Arctic Monkeys serving as our soundtrack to our after dark adventures: the smile that she shares with me by the end of it makes any negativity disappear. Letting fear get the better of me will erase any chance of me seeing my girlfriend's smile in the days that follow this one. Is it possible that someday we may not want or can't have moments like that again? Of course, but I would be stupid to let that possibility can in the way of what we have now.

There's no pessimism in this, it's just the natural way of life and I think the moment I realized this I was able to cherish things even more. When you have a relationship it is necessary to know that at any point it can end in some way. I have no illusion that just because the words "I love you" leave my mouth that an eternal bind wraps myself and the recipient of my sentiment together. But when I say those words I mean it with every part of my being. The mission shouldn't be to keep things thriving, it should be to love that person today and go through time, together. It may mean that you come to the decision to end it or to keep pushing on together. We will never know what the future holds for us but I love every moment leading towards it with my friends, family and girlfriend: I love you all. The weight of your own passions can make any person crumble, but that may be a risk worth taking.