Farce

Emotions are like the bottomless ocean. You look at a puppy and all you feel is love. You feel unloved by your beloved and suddenly all you can feel is this sinking feeling in your stomach. There's no end to it, and you don't know how to stop. But, when you look at your favorite character suffer, you feel endless pain too. The only difference between the two is the fact that the latter are not your emotions, they're, in fact, a result of what we know to be empathy. All my life, I have felt what others feel. When my friend gets sad, I'm sad, and just one smile of theirs can make me happy like never before. Empathy is greatest of all emotions, for it is as simple as feeling what the other is feeling, but so much more. You look at it and see that empathy encloses within itself every emotion a human can feel. Now, imagine feeling nothing but empathy. It's like having all the air in the world, but not being able to breathe. For, when I feel what everyone else feels...

To say that one has moved on is not so simple, for you haven't really experienced love if you could give up on another chance with the person without blinking even once. Love is everything. It's about you, about the person you love. It's about your feelings, about their feelings. It's insecurity, and yet it's the one place where you feel secure. It's something that makes you feel you have right over them, and yet you feel like you belong to them. Sometimes it's about vulnerability. Sometimes it is pure strength. To say that you would give up your chance at having that with the person you love is not just stupid, it means you never understood what it is. Love is so much more than just words or actions and yet is a mere feeling. Because that is what love is, nothing you can just fathom. Merely feel. Love may not be something you know about or can understand, and even when it has aspects that you cannot deem certain, the only certainty that can ever be as...