If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. Apart from a few starry-eyed poets or monks living on a mountaintop somewhere, however, we all have expectations. We not only have them, we need them. They fuel our dreams, our hopes, and our lives like some super-caffeinated energy drink.

Worry may not change the outcome, but it definately affects the outlook.

And though the symptons of lovesickness may be many, they all share a single cause and single cure: you.

We all have ideas about love and death. We keep a close eye out for them our entire lives, seeking one and avoiding the other, knowing all the while that both are mostly beyond our control. It is a both scary and exciting predicament. In the end, it all depends on how you look at it. One thing is for sure; it is never quite what you expect.

You can only get outside yourself by looking inside.

Issues are like assholes, we've all got one," Pam snipped.

Sometimes it's the things that are all around us that are hardest to see, especially love.