The List (The Real Thing collection)

by Jade Chang

Here’s what I really think about love: It’s all luck, in the purest and most abstract sense. It doesn’t matter if you’re good enough or hot enough or have done enough work on yourself. Love might feel like an achievement, but it is rarely dependent on merit. I

The beauty of not being able to control love is the endless potential, and freedom revels in pure potential. Your eventual partner can be a person that you were unable to imagine, who spins your life in some unanticipated direction. Or, thanks to them, one aspect of your existing life may take on a significance you never expected.