To Change One Thing

If I was to change one emotion or feeling, if I was to forget how to feel it, what would it be? One emotion. So many choices: pain, fear, agony, hatred, despair. But no, it wouldn't be any of those. What would I choose? It's rather simple, really.

Love.

Why? Of all emotions to remove, the one most often seen as the most pleasant, most beautiful, wonderful, greatest emotion is the one I would choose to get rid of. Precisely. Love is in itself full of pain. At the same time as it brings joy, it carries no less than sorrow.

Have you ever loved someone so much that you would do anything for them? Have you ever loved someone who you knew never cared for you? Have you ever felt so much love that at the same time your soul was being wrenched to bits because of the pain? Have you ever had your heart broken, shattered, and smashed because you loved someone to that extent?

I've heard it argued that the pain of love comes not from the love but from everything around it and everything that comes after it. Perhaps that is the case, but without the love, the pain would not be there to that extent. The joy, the beauty, the excitement of love is not nearly worth the sorrow, despair, and agony that comes of it.

If I could give up one thing, it would be love. Love has too much sorrow with it. Love brings too much pain. Love, like the other most beautiful things in this world, is full of the greatest of agonies. What other emotion could so bring us to tears and to miseries other than that of the deepest passion and caring for someone? Of all things to change, to let go of, to forget...love would be it. No doubt.