In the greater picture of things, everything Val Garnier talks about is... miniscule, in truth. A first relationship is never easy, and people are hardly ever well-adjusted enough for their baggage not to surface. High school sweethearts tend to break up by college, marriages formed in less than a year or two end in divorce, the world always changes. So does people.

But Damien has always believed in the impossible: that to try means something in itself. The mere efforts one gives doesn't have to be perfect, or even everything. It's all in the motion—the attempt, the very act to jump knowing you're more likely to fall. ( He's certain he'd told Magdalena about his philosophy at least five times, in every date she worried, and in every date he didn't. )

Loving another person isn't so different from believing in a cause, really.