The Devotion Paradox
Love's cruelest paradox: we neglect what feels permanent and treasure what seems precarious. Certainty breeds indifference whilst uncertainty breeds devotion. The heart, in its infinite perversity, cherishes most fiercely what it fears to lose and takes for granted what it assumes cannot leave. This is why the smallest shifts—a different word choice, a delayed response—can transform the most secure connections into sources of exquisite anxiety. We are creatures who must believe in loss to truly understand possession.