[Aliantha]

That's all true, what both of you have said, and you'd better believe it when SG says I've been through the mill. At least a couple of times.

It's because of this that I have the perspective that I do.

I'm lucky now, but life sometimes deals crap hands even amidst a string of good ones, so I simply cherish what I have and leave the rest to fate.

As to the love situation, I still don't believe it's meant to be that hard. I know this because I once believed myself to be in a similar situation, but I was deluding myself. Most of us torture ourselves with love at some stage of our lives. I just think it's a shame that any of us waste time on people that'll never be our own.