I recently read an entry on Diaryland that someone had written about love. It really got me thinking about the subject, and, before I knew it, I wanted to write an entry on love, too.
I've never been in love before, never had my heart broken before. I thought I would clarify that before I even started writing. I've been in "puppy love", and felt something akin to heartbreak. But, I've never truly been in love, and I've never truly been hurt.
I think that when I do fall in love, the realization will come quietly, without all the fireworks and suddens gasps like it does in the movies. It will simply be a silent knowing, knowing that the person in front of you is the one you want to spend your life with. And that moment- that realization- will be so overwhelmingly beautiful, that it will feel as though it is the only moment in life that has ever truly mattered. It will make all other joy, all other pain, everything else, seem insignificant in comparison. And perhaps, if you're lucky, you'll look back on that moment with your lover decades later, and realize, that it -was- the only moment that ever truly mattered. I think it will be powerful, and breathtaking, and it will bring a sense of calm, a feeling of belonging, because you know you wish to spend your eternity in your lover's arms. From that moment on, it will never leave you, but live in you, immortal. You'll realize that you're suddenly -whole-, and be made away of a gaping void in yourself that had just been filled, a chasm of emptiness you never knew you had.
Yeah. That's gotta be what it's like to fall in love. -grin- I hope when I fall in love, I'm not disappointed, though somehow, I don't think I will be.
How can we define a mix of so many emotions in one simple, monosyballic word? Four letters, meant to define an indescribable emotion. Amazing. Not even the most adept poets could/can adequately describe love, probably because it's different for everyone. I've heard people who are- or have been- in love say that when you're in love with a person, you're as much in love with their flaws as you are with their best attributes. One of my best friends once told me that she was in love with all her boyfriend's imperfections. I've also had someone tell me that, when you're in love with a person, flaws don't matter, because to you, they're perfect. Pretty amazing.
Now, you've heard my thoughts on the subject. And so, for your reading enjoyment, a few of my favorite quotes on love. =D
"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings." --Anais Nin
"Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere." --Emma Goldman
"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, in spite of ourselves." --Victor Hugo
-grin- Another entry soon.