No short-cuts

‘There are no short-cuts in life or in love, this pain must be felt … the alternative is much worse.  It’s what makes us special, makes us beautiful, what makes us worthy.  The pain of how we love … but that pain is accompanied by something else isn’t it – Hope.  With your pain there is hope, and that is where you are somewhere between agony and optimism and pray. So you are human, you are alive and that is what we have’