William Shakespeare famously wrote, “When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” As the father of one of the world’s greatest love stories, Romeo and Juliet, this guy had to know what he was talking about. The sequence is too familiar: two pairs of eyes meet on the subway, on the street, across the library, and registered on each person’s face are mutual levels of awe, bliss, and…love? This description of love as something that can happen at anytime, with any stranger, gives us a sense of hope, a feeling that love is a force greater than ourselves. The idealized concept of love at first sight has come to define what we think love to be and what we hope we will find ourselves. However, this illusion of instantaneous love, in my humble opinion, is nothing but a myth.