Poets have defined love for centuries; they have tried to capture what it means to love in words, tried to explain it to the naive in sentences and letters. But honestly, there is no way to describe it until you feel it in your heart. There are no words that can truly express the moment when you first know you love someone; no sentences that can be formed to truly tell them how much they mean to you. And no matter how much we tell them we love them, those three tiny words cannot even begin to express the feeling we have for them in our hearts. An anonymous quote does attempt to explain what love is, how it works, why it is the way it is: "Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning,"
And while I totally agree with this, I would say that we cannot fully understand what it means to love until we associate it with someone we truly love. I also believe that love shows itself when the moment is right and when we really need it the most, whether we know that we need it or not. Love is having to hear that person's voice as much as possible, it is thinking of them as any song comes on, willing to do anything to make them happy, to lie in their arms and know that you are in the safest place in the world. Love is lying in a dark room with that person, only lit by candles and telling them you love them with all your heart and soul, kissing them in the rain, holding their hand and kissing each finger. Love is something you can't replicate and something that no one should be allowed to judge. No one can ever know how you feel for someone other than yourself, no one can ever know why you love someone, they must accept it and trust you.
Life is all about living for the moment, but what about loving the moment. What about finding someone you can love every moment of the day, that you can think about every moment of the day even if you are not with them and loving them every single moment you have. Love is truly knowing that you would die for someone, that you would give up anything you had to make them feel better or stop hurting. Love is being able to see it in someone else, trusting that person with your whole heart, with your whole being. Love is seeing the most gorgeous girl walking down the street and having the person you love look at you and tell you "you're beautiful." Love is living in a dream, not knowing what is coming next, but hoping that the dream will continue. Love is looking to the future and dreaming even more, it is knowing that the person you love will never try to hurt you, that they will be honest with you all your life.
Love cannot be explained and poets have tried to put that feeling into words for thousands of years, and I still cannot do it here and now. Love is something you have to feel, something you have to mean, and something that you should never be ashamed of. Love is letting all your standards go and adopting new ones, love is never being embarressed or annoyed, love is always knowing that you would fight for him no matter what and knowing that he would always fight for you....
~dedicated to Nick... I love you with all my heart... happy dec. 4th :-)
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