Love: what’s the big deal?

Your friend has just fallen in love. The couple talk for hours, but when you try to get details of who this other person is, it’s frustrating because your friend hasn’t got much factual information at all!

Some people think that the opposite of love is hate. I don’t think so! You have to care about someone to hate them. Not having noticed they exist despite their being always around might be the opposite of love. Or is it when you know all their details, but have not taken the slightest interest in them?—they’re just a cipher, or a customer, or a client.