Sometimes relationships just don't work out, and you have to move on.  But gradually you start to gain experience and let go of some of your adolescent notions about what love is.  I often struggle in relationships when I feel the equal desires to both be alone and be with someone very special and unique.  I find that originality of character really ignites my soul.  As a write I just love really interesting characters.

But in real life, and in America, I find a lot of the people although unique in their own ways, to be card board cut-outs of the next person in line, with all the same modern needs and desires.  I often think that the modern mind has targeted a package of false desires and that there's all these carrots and stick being touted around by those in power.  It seems like these days everyone has to have a big house, a nice car, and a cell phone.  I like the modern emphasis on technology, but I find along with it we have a famine in our spiritual quest to know Eternal Being. 

The enchantment melting as you stand facing

another solid human being, 

another person being human.

And in that shallowness of heart, we look at relationship as stepping stones to our success only.  We ask even if unconsciously, what does this person give to me, what do they add to my field, my inner peace, my happiness.  We've forgotten how to be and live in a state of unreasonable happiness.  I think we would do better to ask what we could give to others and take action whenever a special being enters our lives again.