i know that one shouldn't peep at other's text messages, but a quick glimpse of the line "ik heb je lief met mijn leven"(i have your love with my life), kept me on the edge. "mijn hart hier inschrijven" (i write my heart here). pardon my dutch. these days we mock sentimentality; it seems almost embarrassing, awkward, to express one's emotions. i was embarrassed - thinking that perhaps it was a message to an unavailable lover. "vuur" (fire), "dromen" (to dream), popped up in this incredibly direct outpour of her heart (that i should happen to chance upon). it was an intense moment that you wanted to laugh at, deny and suppress the fact that it should ever move someone. we want to be cynical and logical.