Search For The Holy Grail

   True love is a hard thing to find and regardless of how embittered they are on the surface everyone wants to experience this holy grail of life.  However, in this day and age, many people are suggesting that perhaps it is simply a myth.  Just look at all the failed relationships and the rising divorce rates.  I have faith, though, that true love does still indeed exist, but not quite as everyone wants it to be.  It's not something you can simply find, but something you make and maintain with the right person (notice how I didn't say perfect). Even a chalice of gold needs to polished to retain it's lustre...and that's what many people of this world forget these days: that real love is not just some feel good effortless relationship that stays in perfect shape but a relationship with someone that ISN'T perfect (face it, no one is) but is right for you.  People change, yes.  How about changing together?  That's the idea finding someone worth going through all the trouble of maintaining a relationship through the sickness and health, poverty and wealth, and etc.  Why do you think it's in the vows?  Because it's expected and because marriage isn't all romance and Kodak moments.  Marriage requires maintenance.  You can't drink out of a dirty grail.  It'll only make you sick.
   You may think you know all of this but ask yourself this: what do you expect in a relationship?  What dumb things have you broken up or argued over?  How hard do you really work to keep your significant other happy?  Do mood swings or emotional mishaps negatively affect your relationship?  Now reread all of this and consider this as being addressed to yourself specifically rather than just to the general public.  Common sense isn't always taken to heart is it?