#Crush

A crush is the art of exhausting one’s own heart without ever capturing the other person’s. Under the guise of love, it offers a rewardless self-torture. Expectation and despair flip like two sides of a coin, leaving only unanswered questions. Neither success nor failure ever belongs to you, yet your self-esteem is steadily eroded.

A secret crush is a spark of love germinating in the recesses of the heart, cruelly freezing the courage needed to confess. It is a paradoxical state that lavishes care and kindness on its object while stubbornly keeping its own engine in neutral. It stirs romantic agony to stage homemade fantasies, at times taking the boldest actions yet never crossing the line from friend to lover. In other words, it can be someone’s greatest supporter and, simultaneously, their most silent adversary. When hidden affection unexpectedly reveals its shadow, it feels like slipping into a trap of one’s own making.