exist in fiction.

Mostly I read love stories because I know they can only exist in fiction. Sometimes I can see the kind of love expressed in these stories in real life but i know that it is never really put into words quite the way it is in fiction. There will always be a difference between feeling something and expressing it in a way that does it justice. And these days, I doubt there are many men who would recite poems for the woman they love, or write letters telling them that “I know I have spent every life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you, but you, for your soul and mine must always come together”. I know that if a man did write this, it probably wouldn’t be taken seriously. I’m always saying there should be more romance in the world but I’m sure I wouldn’t know what to do with it if something like that actually came into my world. Romance like that can only exist in make believe worlds. Sometimes I’ve try to express the love I have for someone in a way that satisfies the feelings. I try to write about it, to explain it. Most of the time all I can come up with is that I love someone more than I can put into words. This of course, never feels adequate enough. To express love, to describe the enormity of feelings and put them into words is something I love to read but struggle to write. The writer’s of these stories I always enjoy reading - romance novelists - have somehow found a way to put these stories into words, on paper, in a way that, at least for the brief time you are reading them, makes them seem possible.