A Loophole in the Theory

There has been a new discovery.

This is the idea that maybe the actual human heart

is different than this kind of heart.

This goes along with the first law of thermodynamics, which my father so kindly reminded me of today, which states that energy, along with everything else in the universe, cannot be created or destroyed, but can only be changed.

Which is true, of course. Except that this theory would prove right any self-assuming emotional lovers out there who honestly believe in their pretty little hearts and souls that love is an unlimited resource.

Which it isn't.

Because, see, there's a loophole.

This loophole is where love can escape the energy transfer and fall away - not to nothing, but to a state that cannot, with today's science, be collected or altered.

This loophole is the idea of unrequited love.

Now, a normal love transfer would look like this:

One side has taken out a piece of his love and sent it into someone else. He is negative one piece of love. But then, he gets an equal piece of love in return, from the side he has sent his love to, so his heart can be complete and rejuvenated to its original state of fullness. Each gives and receives an equal amount.

A classic energy transfer. Of course, if this were what always happens, the amount of love on Earth would stay at its original level for eternity. But it doesn't.

Why?

A crack in the system happens.

The crack in the system looks like this:

WHOOPS. Transfer FAILED.

Where does it go though? What happens to that love? Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be changed. If so, what does it become?

Unable to be received, the love joins a realm unreachable. It loses its energy to move into a body, and instead finds itself to be, well, gone. Off the map. Not created or destroyed, just changed into something we cannot yet retrieve or contain. Or, well, find.

This would be fine, of course, if it weren't for the people who send this irretrievable love and what happens to them.

A strange phenomenon occurs.

The sender, observing their love is unable to be accepted by a body already full of its own unsent love, should logically move on, reserving their limited amount of love for a better recipient.

Somehow, this does not happen.

The unloved, realizing itself to be unloved, does something remarkable and entirely inexplicable - 

it keeps loving.

We cannot tell you why or how this happens. Unrequited love is such a powerful energy source, we can't get near enough to the test subjects to ask them when they're empty. All we know is that love in its most selfless form can and will result in a death unloved.

Unless.

Unless someone reaches the unreachable.


It happens every now and then. One of those things that can't be helped. No one knows just how or why, but there are some people able to retrieve this vast ocean of lost emotion. They just put it back together piece by piece.

They are the loophole in the loophole in the system.

Without them, we'd have run out a long, long time ago.