amateur lovers

One of my favorite bands, Switchfoot, has a song on their latest album "Oh! Gravity" called "Amatuer Lovers". Not one of their greatest songs, but I like some of the lyrics.

"Everyone I know needs love like drugs
Like a common cold we could never shrug
My baby and me, we're missing the same stuff
We've all got a disease, deficiency of love

Every day we still try
Every night we still cry

We don't know what we're doing
We do it again
We're just amateur lovers
With amateur friends"

It makes an interesting point: we know what we need, we know what we need to do, and we keep trying to do it, but we just aren't very good at it - we're amatuers. None of us are professionals when in this. And that's ok, because the point is really in the struggle - we try, we sometimes fail, but the next day we pick ourselves up and keep trying again. To give up and stop trying is the real failure.