Synaptic Bloom

 Love is :

(Among other things) 

The willingness to come closer

The willingness to understand with the least projection possible 

The willingness to open up and become vulnerable 

The willingness to sacrifice

The willingness to protect 

The willingness to stay and fix what's broken

The willingness to communicate openly 

The willingness to merge while staying unique 

But... It must arise spontaneously... 

Not to confuse spontaneity with shallowness. 

It is the kind of spontaneity that lights our hearts and activates a gravitational force so strong that only God can separate. 

Love is as natural and as wondrous as a binary star system. 

Or, you know, in our case... Not. 

But whatever. 

I guess our closest metaphor (if we believe in "as above, so below - as within so without "would have to be one of the following:

1. The Pulsar and the Silent Companion

A pulsar is a collapsed star that emits beams of radiation like a cosmic lighthouse, spinning rapidly, broadcasting its light faithfully into the void. Sometimes, a pulsar has a companion star—a white dwarf or another star—nearby. The pulsar pulses on and on, sending signals, but the companion is silent, unmoved, not responding in kind. Still, the pulsar spins, because that is what it was made to do.

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2. Quantum Entanglement… with a Broken Link

In quantum entanglement, two particles become so intertwined that the state of one instantly affects the state of the other—no matter the distance. But if one of the particles becomes entangled with something else or gets measured (which in quantum terms means it "collapses" into a definite state), the original entanglement can break or become "decohered."

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3. The Planet That Got Ejected

In astrophysics, sometimes a young planet forms near a star but gets gravitationally ejected—cast out into the darkness of space. It becomes a rogue planet, drifting alone, no longer bound to the star it once orbited.

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4. Cassiopeia and Perseus — The Stars That Never Meet

There are constellations like Cassiopeia and Perseus that seem close when we look from Earth, but they are light-years apart in actual space. From here, it looks like a love story. But in truth, they were never destined to touch.

So, yeah... 

There we have it. 

Unfortunate but... 

It is what it is. 

What it has always been. 

Unrequited.