Nepal, June 6 -- Two centuries heretofore, one of the founders of the English romantic movement, poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, reportedly said, "To meet, to know, to love-and then to part, is the sad tale of many a human heart." Whilst the claim about the originality of the line remains disputed to this day, the undisputed fact remains: it has been at least two centuries since a person first made this observation. Yet, we pay no heed to the observations of the antecedents, make the same mistakes, and remain the same fools.

Naturally, there exist married couples and lifelong friends who have withstood the travails of time, having suffered the wrath of days and still relished the experience. A wrinkly antique back-bent vestige of human for...