The nature of desire is very tricky. Delicate, like a butterfly’s wing. Love always catches you unawares. It’s like being out by the lake, seeing a ripple in the water, and perhaps the sun glints in a particular way and a tiny fish leaps up in that moment when your eye is unprepared for it. It captivates you. But the same water, the same ripple, the same sun, and the same fish may not touch your heart on another day. Love is that landscape. If someone points to a beautiful picture and says, look! So much beauty! You see the beauty but you cannot feel it. Your heart is not warmed by it. But
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