Being a human with feelings, love is always a tricky subject when we only have one word that actually means so many different things. You love pizza, but you use the same word to say you really love people.
To be honest, I don't know if I have ever been in love, but I suppose that means I haven't. If I had, I may know what it feels like. But upon watching and contemplating my own feelings for other people, this is what I imagine love feels like, and maybe you can relate.
Love begins when you stay up all hours, your mind spinning at a single comment, a mere and open ended nothing. Love takes you by the heart and holds you tight, never loosening its grip.
Moreover, love is found in the other's bright eyes, when they look at you, you can't look away, not even for a moment. The moment strikes you too beautiful.
When love is shown in simple questions about your day, you await responses and hold your breath. Love isn't about the butterflies in your stomach, but sometimes ...
It is.
Love begins, just as anything else. There is no familiarity in love, no matter how many times you have fallen into it. As time wears on, there is a familiarity in a person, but each love that forms is new and unlike the previous.
Love is laughing at another's horrible joke, so they don't feel stupid. Love is keeping each masterpiece the other has given you, no matter how ugly.
Love is fighting without war. Love wakes you up early to remind you of its strength, of its power over you.
But love is tricky. It crushes you when it feels lonely. It lets you feel pain when it is not reciprocated. It puts expectations on others to do what it wants, what you want. So many believe that love sucks.
They have found that love can do more damage than anything else, because it harnesses every powerful and painful emotion, to place doubt in your heart.
But love can be great. It can be magic and butterflies and smiles. You may not have met the one who fulfills that desire in you: the one who your soul loves deeply. But that's OK. And if you lose them, that's OK too. This love may come around more than once, you just have to find this love ...
This love is rare and it is more than an emotion. It is actions and it is staying committed through life's toughest ventures. But it exists. It exists in the places you look the least and in the deepest corners of the earth. Love is the greatest adventure, not only being in it, but finding it as well.
