Lessons from hits and misses in my love life

I believe in miracles. I really do, because nothing else can explain how I made it through my 20s and 30s. Nothing, but the grace of God, and the indulgence of the universe. I was a wild child. I thought I knew it all while in fact I knew very little. My mind was bursting with other people’s ideas, but I hadn’t quite figured out how to apply them to my own life.

If one had tested me on my theories of everything, I would have passed with flying colours. But in the real world, those theories were worthless. They were untried and completely impractical. The connection between my mind and heart was unformed; I was like a fully-equipped, fully-stocked factory that couldn’t run because the operators hadn’t learned how to operate the machines. My emotional quotient (EQ) output was nil.