In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

— Madame de Staël

GRATITUDE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Affection does not follow the sensible forecast. Someone who was clearly right on paper leaves you cold, and an attachment that made no sense turns out to be the durable one, because the heart is answering to things that never appear on any list. Reasoning your way toward who you ought to love mostly produces a well-argued absence of feeling. What is actual tends to beat what is plausible.

Notice where you are arguing yourself into or out of a feeling this week. Ask what is true rather than what makes sense, and let the answer stand even unjustified.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Have you loved someone unlikely and found it entirely real?

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