bittersweet symphony

"To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before." -- Rollo May

often times it seems as though we imagine love to be this sweet sweet thing. as if it's made out of sugar and cream, and everything good! but anybody who can bake knows even the sweetest passteries consist of salt, and salt is never sweet.

i like eating dark chocolate while drinking sweet tea. it's like taking in life, love and everything good and bad at the same time. 

bittersweet. bittersweet. only after bitter can you taste sweet.

that's why marriage is about sticking together through thick and thin, in sickness and in health, because only then did you taste the full flavor of magic.