Liking someone can be both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, you have an inspiration – someone who motivates you to be better than who you are now. Someone whose approval you constantly seek; someone who makes your day seem complete. On the other hand, it is this same person that makes you vulnerable, the person who has the power to hurt you the most. The person to whom your happiness is exclusively dependent upon – a day would not seem complete without a message, a call, a talk or even the sight of that person. So this is my question: is it really worth it: to risk such depression for the slim chance of unparalleled joy? Is it worth it to go through such pain for a glimmer of hope that perhaps the person feels or will ever learn to feel the same way as you do about her? Indeed, this is a sickness. Cliché as it may sound, lovesickness does make sense to a certain degree when you look at it. In liking someone, a person is forced out of his shell of norms and his routine for his significant other. He is put in positions that are both awkward and yet refreshing; painful and yet satisfying. Just as sickness controls or alters a person’s bodily functions, so love does as well in terms of a person’s emotions and inhibitions. It’s funny to think how I suddenly appreciate things related to love; to think that I used to find it so mushy and therefore disgusting. It’s funny to think how I suddenly apply every love song I hear on the radio on my own situation – like I said – SICKNESS. I see so many people who have found the right persons for them, and it fills me with awe and a bit of envy at what luck they have; whereas we search, find, and yet do not manage to hold on to those persons that we seem to think is right for us. My idealism has always led me to think that there is one right person for each of us - that in the right time we may finally find that “second half” of ours to make us complete. This belief has always held me back from developing deep relationships with other people – but what if the person who is right for me has already passed me by? I do not wish to think of missing out on that anymore. So I ask again, is it worth it? For me I guess only time will tell.