Introduction

You know someone once told me love is a mysterious thing.

And I stand by that. You see I believe in those words.

In my quest to find the meaning of love, I discovered myself.

I should probably introduce myself. I suppose that would be the proper way to start off a book; if you know who you’re listening to and reading about. Well, it’s complicated, really. I’ve gone by many different names. So many, in fact, that at times I couldn’t even remember my birth name. But never mind that, that’ll come later. My given name is Elske which I believe is Danish for, you guessed it, Love. I haven’t learned much Danish, but I know some of my Grandparents were from Denmark. So this is what I think I know in Danish: ‘I love coffee’ is ‘Jeg elsker kaffe’

‘I love shoes’ is ‘Jeg elsker sko’

And ‘I love you’ is ‘Jeg elsker dig,’

Naturally everything I know how to say in Danish contains the word elsker meaning love. Of course, someone did recently teach me how to say ‘I miss you’ in Danish, ‘Jeg savner dig.’ Or at least, I’m pretty sure that’s how you say all those things. But, hey, how would I know? I’m not a language professional, right?

I don’t know much because I didn’t really care to learn Danish. It was bad enough I had to learn a foreign language in school, and then one or two others when I got into my profession. But I’ll go more into that later.

What I discovered, well, the meaning of love isn’t all hearts and flowers, it’s… wait a second I can’t tell you what I discovered, it would spoil the ending. And besides, if you’ve never been in love then you won’t understand what I’m talking about until the end, anyhow. Now for those of you who picked up this book and are now thinking to yourselves ‘Ugh, did I just pick up a cheesy romance book? I thought this was supposed to be about some sort of exciting adventure.’ I’m telling you, no, Ordering you, “Do not put this book down. I guarantee to all of my readers that this will not be a cheesy romance novel. In fact, it’s hardly a romance novel at all. I am ensuring plenty of action and adventure into this story, and a fairly puny amount of all that soul mate crap.

And for all of you out there reading this novel who are into the romance stories (and were surely about to return this book), I will explain to you why this is not a romance book and why I’m calling it all that soul mate crap, so that you are not offended. Number one, I’m not writing it because it’s not my cup of tea, or bowl of soup, or spoon of cheerios, or whatever the expression is these days. I’m just not into that sort of thing. Number two, anyone who has ever written about anything extremely complicated as their subject of an entire book, has to have had experienced it for it to even be remotely close to a good book. And I’m not just speaking about love, I was just referring to anything as complicated or puzzlistic that can wrap the whole world in a knot of confusion. For example, the meaning of life. Yeah, that’s a big one. It has puzzled plenty of scientists, or even other ordinary people who know nothing about science. My point is, it is a very controversial subject that no one knows about for positive so all the books written about the meaning of existence and what not are just books filled to the brim with ridiculous theories. Theories aren’t accurate until they can be proven, then they become postulates or the truth, in other more simple words. Theories make for crappy books. Love however is not a theory because plenty of people experience it in many different forms. Now I could write about the love that is shared between family members, or the love that is shared in friendship, and come out with an amazing book. But I could not, however, write about the romantic genre of love because I myself have not experienced it, so that would make for a horrible book, one which no one would want to read. Not even myself.

Of course, after all that ranting, I very much doubt that you want to continue reading this story anyway, but hey, I’m taking a chance here. Besides, I don’t think you would be reading this anyway if A) you didn’t like to read, B) You’re a family member or friend of the author and you have to read it because it’s polite, or you just pretend to read when they’re watching, Or C) You don’t have a choice; it’s school work, in which case I would feel very sorry for you, but I’ll try to make this story as interesting as possible. If I succeed in making it as interesting as I would hope it would be to readers, then hopefully you wouldn’t have to read it for school anyway, because I don’t intend on it being very informational. (I would like it to be somewhat interesting and perhaps a little funny. If you’re reading this because of school, then I have probably failed, unless of course they told you that you could choose whichever book you’d like to read out of all the books in the universe. In that case, I’d be very honored you chose this one.)

Anyhow, by this point I’m sure you’re very confused about the meaning behind this story. But just hang in there, you’ll see.

Sincerely,

Elske