Lately, I’m expanding my horizon in books — I am enjoying reading a romance novel: Normal People.

It’s been interesting to spectate a fictional love story: especially with emotions that feel so real and raw they jump off the page.

And it made me reflect on whom we love and why we love them. And how hard it is to do sometimes.

Lasting love seems to be choice. The choice to stay together. The choice to do without abandon. The choice to make it a verb.

And if we choose, reality can be better than any dream.