Love?

I think this is what it means to love someone. To know an answer before you ask the question, but to ask the question anyway, despite the ache that follows.

Do we need more than we want? Do we trust more than we know? Do we feel more than we admit? Do we care, despite it all? Probably.

But to risk it? The timid fragility of fleshed electronics under a sternum and a popped collar... That's probably the best way to figure out what your value proposition is. And that is, afterall, the nuts in this tug of war with mortality.