Love. It is the most powerful. The most terrible. Everyone wants it. Ultimately everything we crave from success to beauty can all be attributed to gaining love. But you know what I am realizing? Love ALWAYS comes with expectations, with desire, with pain, and guilt. Always the guilt. Guilt for being a bad friend. Guilt for being a bad daughter. Guilt for being a bad lover. The minute you bring people into your life, the guilt just gathers and gathers. Until all you can feel is hatred for yourself, for being the worst person ever, because you cannot love to the expectations of those around you. Or maybe it's just me that feels this way? Trapped by love so that I wish I had no people around me, so the pain wouldn't be there. No. That's not what I want. I love people, I love their passions, their hopes, their aspirations, their humor, their love for me. I know when I am hurting they are too. I just wish there is love where guilt, pain, and sadness doesn't follow. Is t...