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“What do any of us really know about love?” Mel said. “It seems to me we’re just beginners at love.” I think this quote in specific is especially relevant to what Professor Corrigan said the first day of classes that all things tend to deal with either love or death. All people have to encounter love in whether a romantic way or just plain kindness and to the same extent we all will face death. Whatever the case is, humans have this in common: that neither love nor death can be known. Uncertainty is a key factor in what makes life, life. Another statement was said in the text that one character believes that love is an absolute. And I would have to agree, although love involves mystery to find it, it guarantees that in some shape you will find it. Uncertainty and the ability to explore love and find is something that I think a lot of people take for granted. People don’t realize how much love can impact their life positively or negatively. I think people are given the capacity at birth to give love and inherently a place to receive it. And that in order to have a true and complete love their must be a give and take relationship. Although Mel says we are beginners at love, I think the important thing is not to strive to become an expert. But rather strive to give love and not to focus on how you will receive this love. This requires sacrifice of your own wants and needs to be able fulfill someone else’s. Even though putting yourself out there isn’t always the easiest thing or certain for success, it’s worth the risk. This uncertainty is what makes love an absolute. Because if you can give of yourself knowing you might not give a response, maybe there won’t be a love that you receive back. But there will be a love that you can be absolutely sure that you gave out. In the end you became stronger, which in turn is success.