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An amazing discovery about love

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David Harcourt
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Posted: 30 Oct 2010 04:37 am

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Yes, I have made a simply amazing discovery about love.

It is this:

I would be happier - much, much happier - if I loved my children a lot less than I do.

Is this incredible or what?

Well, it is to me, anyway. I mean: how can it possibly make any sense? After all, if love is the problem, surely the remedy is painfully simple: love less.

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Posted: 30 Oct 2010 04:44 am

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You, gentle reader, are not the first person I have told about this - to me - incredible insight. You are in fact the third.

The first was my friend Jo, who immediately emailed me back to say: "Exactly: what took you so long to find that out?", or words to that effect.

OK, I thought to myself, that's Jo. She is wise beyond imagining. People like Bertrand Russell, Einstein, Darwin and the other brainboxes in human history would have gotten to their particular truths much, much faster if they'd been in daily email contact with her, as I am lucky enough to be.

But today I mentioned this thought to my assistant, Selina, who's in her twenties and therefore just a kid, really - a very smart kid, you understand, but definitely a newbie in the Great Game of Life. And what did Selina say? "Of course that's true," she said. "I've known that for years and years and years."

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Posted: 30 Oct 2010 04:45 am

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Gee. What a sheltered life I lead.

Here I was, thinking love was A Good Thing, and it turns out to be a recipe for misery.

I guess this makes the score:

Hermits, Glass-is-half-empty people and the Dead: about 73953247

Me and the rest of the rest of the Glass-is-half-full people: 0

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