Editor’s Note

Love. A term that seems so familiar but has different faces to everyone you come across in life. A word that sounds simple yet challenging to comprehend as the days go by as it comes in waves of tranquility or chaos. A feeling that changes, transforms, and evolves, just like we do as we grow more mature and older. A double-edged sword that either makes you the happiest person alive or the exact opposite. And limiting it to only one perspective does not seem fair.

For this year’s love month, The New Builder presents literary pieces on the various forms of love through Echoes and Ecstasy. With creative works from the red and gold community, this literary folio unfolds the reality of loving another and being loved in all forms — all the highs and the lows, all the behind-thescenes and highlight reels, and everything in between.

With different standpoints, we may never fully grasp what love is or what it should be like. For now, let us listen to the echoes of the wandering mind and the yearning soul. And, perhaps, like sunsets and sunrises that bring promise and peace, we’ll finally find our way out of the maze to meet ecstasy.