To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This is a popular New York Times article going around the Internet lately. It resonated with me. I think I agree that you can learn to fall in love with someone. With enough memories and conversations together, familiarity, intimacy, trust, and eventually caring will develop. There’s the recipe for love.

Perhaps this section hit me the most:

Ours was the kind of accelerated intimacy I remembered from summer camp, staying up all night with a new friend, exchanging the details of our short lives. At 13, away from home for the first time, it felt natural to get to know someone quickly. But rarely does adult life present us with such circumstances.

I miss really getting to know someone, even if it was through continual, contrived contact haha. Life moves more slowly dans le version adult; it would be weird to disrupt that pace, suddenly springing upon someone with intimate questions. But that slight resistance is there day after day, until you really crave that intimacy but no longer know where to find it.