“We may not have been built for monogamy, but interestingly enough, it’s the one animalistic trait we aren’t always trying to transcend. We weren’t built to eat at tables or work in fluorescent-lit offices each day, we weren’t built to internalize shame or gamble or consume copious amounts of alcohol, but we do, because the very work of being human is in transcending our humanness.

Our folklore and mythology and fairytales – the stories that deepen our lives with substance – are all tales of how we moved past what was inevitable and made ourselves into something more. Something lighter. Something infused with meaning and purpose. Some kind of race that knows the love of someone you commit to and the lust of someone you release an urge with are incomparable. At some level we know this is true of us all: that we are intended to be more than we are, and yet somehow, in doing that we realize we were always enough.”