To Love is to Be Extreme

When you love, you are committing an extreme act.  You are saying, "There is something in my life that is more important to me than everything else in my life."  And people who say this are willing to go do some extraordinary and drastic things (both good and bad) to preserve this love.  People will change any other aspect of their life if it means improving that one all-important aspect.  They will even sacrifice entire areas of their life if necessary.  And it does become necessary; all great things require both risk and sacrifice.  So to not love-- this can lead to its own sort of success.  You might make it through life without having to make any real sacrifice, without having any major challenges.  You can definitely focus better on any given task without being distracted by all the unstable variables that love brings into the equation.  But nothing that comes of that focus-- nothing will ever quite match the elation and despair that come from loving.