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[video] riddle, riddle on the wall

[The man is dressed in a classy suit with green highlights, using needlessly dramatic lighting as he starts to talk, very master of ceremony.]

ImPorts and Very ImPortants!

[He turns the camera around to show a wall that he has artfully decorated with a word cloud. Yes, he has put a lot of work in.]

Some of you might have enjoyed the riddle page of the Heropan Post before. I've been architect of it for a few months now. You're welcome!

Yet here I come to you with a riddle that I can't ever seem to quite figure out by myself.

[The camera is turned around again and he can be seen slowly drawing a heart in the air with two fingers as he talks.]

I'm worthless to one but priceless to two. What am I?

I am love.

Wait! That's not the riddle that leaves me puzzled. It goes deeper. One of the few questions where I'm not certain of the answer yet. Whenever I think I know, I get thrown for a loop.

So.

What is love?

Or, should I ask, what is it to you?

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Take this down. IMMEDIATELY.

What are you even doing?

It's called research.

I already read up on the subject, now I'm trying an opinion based study.

Edited 2018-03-02 09:55 (UTC)

I take it back. I take it all back.

END THIS.

You-- you can't just!

...fine.

Regardless, I am finishing my research.

It was clearly a mistake. Look at how you're handling it.

You can't research love, Ed. You either feel it or you don't.

Edited 2018-03-02 10:30 (UTC)

You can research anything. Whatever you may feel, it can be explained. Analysed. It should be, anyway.

You can but no matter how much you research it, it still boils down to a yes or no question.

You either feel it or you don't. And if you don't feel it now, you don't feel it.

You are oversimplifying a very complex emotion, Oswald. Nothing is that black and white.

What is love to you?

I wouldn't try to explain it. I can't.

Love is ineffable. Love is just something you know in your heart that escapes all logic and description.

That's the easy way out. If you don't understand what it is, you don't know what it might make you do. You don't know what weakness might come with it.

What strength.

I know I love you.

I don't understand it and I can't reason with it or change it. I have tried, believe me but it's not going away. The easiest way to discover how it makes you weak or strong is to experience it. I can't say I have any experience before, besides my mother, that I can compare to.

I have experience with love. I did not do it well and it ended badly.

[Understatement.]

I know what love feels like. What it might or should make someone do, that's a different question.

Are you afraid you're going to choke me to death like you did Miss Kringle?

Because I don't believe this is the same situation. For one, I know you're a murderer and for another, I like to think you've evolved past that kind of impulse.

Of course you'd like to think that. But do you know? And do you know your own impulses?

Edward.

You're overthinking this. If you let every little bad idea stop you from having love then you will never have it. You must trust me.

Do you trust me? I trust you.

Duh. I overthink everything.

This 'little bad idea' could have either or both of us destroyed. When has good come from your love? Or from mine?

Plenty of good can come from love! Happiness? Belonging? Someone to spend the rest of our lives with? Support and comfort, to be able to know that there is someone in the world who is always there for you and

I suppose if you don't see this.
You don't see it.

Weigh that against the bad that can come from it,
which is a lot closer to certainty.

I'm not dismissing it, I'm trying to analyse it.

If the bad of a situation always outweighs the good for you then why do anything?

To be daring and bold, to take risks for profitable ventures, that is how I have always lived. I have suffered every step but I always get what I want. That can be a good outcome or a bad one. Sometimes bad things will happen and this could all end horribly. It could, however, be the best thing to ever happen to you.

Analyse it all you like, you'll never know until you try.

We shall see.

You trust me, yes?

Yes.

[Well. You know. Kinnnnnnnnnnda.]

Then you'll do it.

Edited 2018-03-02 12:18 (UTC)

wait, what??

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