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// Interlude: Musings on Pony love 
// Story: My little Short Stories 2- Paradise Edition 
// by Paradise Oasis 
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Interlude: Musings on Pony love

Relationships... how in the world can I understand them? The relationships between two ponies of opposite genders is something of a mystery to even the wisest of ponies, can barely understand. So how can I, as a lowly historian, begin to understand hat mysterious forces draw two ponies together as soul mates? I can only record what other people have written, And the history behind such relationships as they happened. So in honor of the fast approaching Valentine's day, I've decided to take another look at this subject.

Really, if you look over my historical accounts, it really doesn't  make any sense. Salty and Fizzy? What on earth goes a goofy soda vendor have in common with a silly sailor? Gusty and Quarterback? How can a hotheaded unicorn tomboy and a jerky jock have anything in common? I really can't understand What North Star and Barnacle see in each other. I just don't get, nor can I understand what gels between the gun-crazed Tex and the just plain crazy Surprise. I know it is often common wisdom that opposites attract, none of these ponies are opposites from each other. So what is the spark that binds these ponies together? 

I just don't understand... what is it that pulls these mares and stallions together? What makes ponies, who seem to have nothing in common, to come together in a bond even closer than friendship? I don't really understand how these things like this work, despite all of my attempts to understand what makes the matters of the heart tick. I've studied all of the histories, of Rarity's various crushes that are the stuff of legend, and of Kimono the wise's deep love for her beloved Yukata. These tales have told me a great deal about the feelings of these ponies, yet at the same time, they told me nothing.  

I must admit, though all of my readings and life experiences.... with all of my knowledge of pony history and politics and culture... I cannot understand the first thing about equine romance. Chocolates, corny poems,  romantic sonnets where a stallions knight errant sings of the beauty of his lady-mare fair; I understand it on one level, but fail to grasp it's true meaning.  Even my own Twilight, the love and beacon of hope and and anchor of sanity in my life... I don't know why she loves me so much. I don't understand what she sees in my faults, my constant failures, and my inability to do anything useful or constructive. I clearly  have no desirable traits whatsoever. Yet here I am, married to the mare of my dreams, happy in a way I don't feel I deserve.

As I sit here writing these notes, I just noticed Twilight and surprise have left for their weekly meeting with their friends at the Satin Slipper sweet shoppe.  As she smiles and says goodbye, In notice her friend Paradise giving me that angry glare again. I am very well aware that persnickety Pegasus does not like me, nor does she care for the bond I share with her friend. She believes I am too inept and absent minded to do well by Twilight, which is amusing when considering the faults and failings of her own lover, Trucker. She is just as blind to his faults, as Twilight is to mine. That must be one of the negative side effects of loving a pony, I suppose.  

I oftentimes wonder; is there more to these relationships, that I simply cannot see? Friendships, the very core of what is believed to be the core essence of what makes a pony a pony, is equally unexplainable. Mares who you would never even believe would be able to have a civil conversation together because of their differences, have oftentimes throughout pony history become the best of friends. They are drawn together by a common bond that cannot be seen by others, and perhaps with love it is the same way. Though even after all of my intense studies on the subject, I fail to see what this invisible force that binds equines together, throughout all of their lives and beyond. 

There are those who tell me my musings are a waste of time, that love is something that can't be explained. "Love is just something that happens to you, Tornado dahling." Heart Throb, the pony matchmaker and mistress of romance, one advised me. "Y'all will nevah find the answers about it by looking in a book!" That hypothesis is not without merit; there are many mysterious forces in this world that study and logic and reason cannot solve, and we just have to just accept that they simply work the way they do 'just because'. But isn't it better to put some effort in and try to study it first, before just accepting that love is just the way it is 'just because'? I don't know, I've never been as much of a rationalist as Wind Whistler. I can accept a great many things in this world on blind faith- something that the fairy-tale obsessed Twilight and I clearly have in common.

*sigh* Perhaps Heart Throb is right, and the answers to all of my questions on the subject will forever lie outside of Ponydom's reach. What is it that brings Poesy and Steamer together? Why did Applejack, ageless mare cursed with an unending immortality, choose a stallion like Lightning? Perhaps the answers to these questions are never meant to be known, for the how or why these ponies have come together isn't what is really important. What is important is that they have found happiness in being together, and that is what one should concentrate on when contemplating these matters.  For perhaps the greatest gift that love between two ponies brings, is the joy that it also brings to them both.