Paradise is Hell

That's what my Spanish teacher said today.

Apparently, this Spanish love/mathematics song eluded to that in a round about way. It was referring to how love hurts, and in that way paradise is hell. After contemplating this for sometime, I've deduced they're right. But I wish love didn't have to be so painful. The "pain" that we feel from love has even drifted into our language. People combine it in phrases ("I love you so much it hurts."), and some compose songs.

• "I love you so much it hurts me
  Darlin, that's why I'm so blue
  I'm so afraid to go to bed at night
  Afraid of losing you.
  
  I love you so much, it hurts me
  And there's nothing I can do
  I want to hold you, my dear, forever and ever
  I love so much it hurts me so."
  

-- Ray Charles

Why does love have to hurt so much? Then I realized. Being in love is the most vulnerable state of mind you can be in.

1. Love makes you do crazy things.
2. Love always wants love in return; if love is not returned, love hurts.
3. Love worries.
4. Love waits, sometimes in agony.
5. Love is vulnerable to betrayal; at times, love betrays.
   
6. Love can be one of the strongest things in life, but can make you the weakest person.
7. Love is confusing.
8. Loving can be hard.
9. Love is envious.
10. Love demands.

Epiphany: This is the love of humans; tainted love.
Eureka: The following is the love of God: perfect love.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

1. Love is patient.
2. Love is kind.
   
3. Love does not envy
4. Love does not boast
5. Love is not proud.
6. Love is not rude
7. Love is not self-seeking.
8. Love is not easily angered.
9. Love keeps no record of wrongs.
10. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
11. Love always protects.
12. Love always trusts.
13. Love always hopes.
14. Love always perseveres.
15. Love never fails.
    

But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears...

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13