Vs.
Love, love, love.
What do we really know of love? Love can be many things in life. We can fall in love with the game of baseball, we can fall in love with art and we can fall in love with poetry.
We can fall in love with many things in life, but what really changes us as a person is falling in love with someone.
In this case, I think love as we know it always takes us by surprise. It is often violent; paralyzing us from the world. It leaves us frozen in time, mesmerized by this new feeling and addicted to it.
Falling in love means that we are giving a person the complete power to shatter our hearts; falling in love means that we trust that person not to do so. Falling in love means many sleepless nights where our minds are plagued by a single lingering thought
Falling in love means spending every second of every minute on every hour of everyday thinking of that person. Finally, falling in love means being changed forever.
At first we deny the fact that we are falling for someone although denial only slows down the inevitable. Reality is, we don’t choose who we fall in love with, it is really by chance. We stay in love not by chance but by working at it. In the case of falling out of love, it is not by chance really, it is by choice. Our hearts tells us who we love, whether we listen to it or not; when someone steals our heart, we assume they have the right key to completely open it. The right key to also break it. Our hearts sing to an incomplete melody, beating to an incomplete rhythm, following an incomplete path and living an incomplete story; that is, until we find someone who will complete it all.
Everyone knows falling in love is a risk because you may be hurt in the process. When we know that down the line we might get hurt, but don’t really care, and when we are willing to sacrifice pain, misery and a broken heart; it is this time that we really know we have fallen for someone. It is this time that we know we are forever changed. In time we will all know this feeling.
Maybe its just me.
- 03.11.11