One Real Love

He has decided, with the same lack of reason so common to much of his thought, that each life is entitled to one real love, but most people settle for something less.  They may become aware that it is settling, and so they will sense regret and will wonder what that one real love might have offered.  He thought too some of us might find and lose that love and only in its loss would we realize what it had been.  It seemed, as often is so, that he had perhaps half a thought and sought to make it more true than it could be.