How to find love, keep it and inevitably lose it
In this one, I talk about love. How you find it, how you keep it, and why you eventually always lose it.
Love takes many forms. You love your mum, your dog, your job and your wife differently. In fact, latin even has a different word for each kind of love. English, on the other hand… when you read the word “live”, which meaning did you go for? To live, or Saturday Night Live?
Many people (especially engineers) think finding love is the hard part. I disagree. We already have love - especially for our jobs. The hard part isn’t finding love - it’s keeping it. Once you find it, you take it for granted. That’s how we work as humans. We’re not satisfiable and we always want more. Another job might pay more or help you grow more, or another car might finally improve your self esteem. It’s not necessarily a bad thing. It’s just how it is, and might even be good for us.
The sad truth is, as...