Falling in love should be the most selfish act of your life
It's Not Me, It's You Falling in love should be the most selfish act of your life Love does some inexplicable things to people. Vegans start to eat steak tartare. Atheists chop off their hair at temple entrances. Rebels learn to roll perfectly symmetrical papad s for their mum-in-laws. And aerophobics take a 22-hour flight from Delhi to Brazil just to meet their significant other and say, ‘Happy Birthday’. “It made him happy. It was worth it,” was her defense of the near-lethal combination of beta blockers, antidepressants and benzodiazepines that had been taken for the journey. “It’s what you do for love.” Now I’ve been hearing that line since I was 6 and my mother told me to share my rock candy with a cousin because “You love her”. It’s-what-you-do-for-love is supposed to be the most obvious, accepted fact today, much like don’t-talk-to-strangers or brush-your-teeth-twice-a-day. Wanting t...