broader forms of love are far easier to handle. caring,
  compassion, learning to trust trust, empathy, sympathy, cheering
  someone on, understanding. But the higher forms of love take you
  on the best and worst roller coaster ride that usually screams
  off the tracks and crashes, manipulate your emotions more than a
  Sarah Mclaughlin "save the dogs" commercial, mix you up more
  than Jeff Goldblum's c...haracter in The Fly, drive you crazier
  than a crackhead without his fix, lifts you up higher than Mt
  Everest and drops you down even further still., embarasses you
  more than showing up to school in your underwear or forgetting
  your lines in the school play, bullies you more, squishes you
  more than a lump of coal turning into a diamond, makes you
  stickier than pine sap, ickier than touching a slug. As great as
  it can be, higher forms of love are dange... "