It's about giving. Giving yourself over to somebody. Becoming one with somebody else, forever. And that's... That's a beautiful thing. That's surrender. That's love.
Maybe happiness, on some level, is just being able to accept a delusion. And we can't begrudge people for wanting to be happy. Maybe we can just close our eyes, take ourselves back to a happy memory, and pretend that we don't have to leave. Perhaps what's tough about being human is the certainty that we have to open our eyes at some point.