Love is a wonderful thing. Sometimes it lasts, sometimes it doesn't. (Read the Letting Go and Loss poems.) Sometimes, when you love someone, it feels like you have to have them. But that's not really so. There's a saying "If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it is yours. If it doesn't, it never was." That, I think, is the attitude we have to have to those we love.
Appreciate the beauty in others. You don't have to have an intimate relationship with someone to appreciate them. It's a good thing to see beauty in others, even if we are admiring them from a distance.
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