Quick Thoughts Part One: Love

Love: Noun, Verb [luhv] Loved, Lov-ing a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.

Just the other day when I was talking with a very special friend of mine, the question of love came up. He asked, "What is love to you?" And for a minute, I was speechless, nobody had ever asked me that before and I hadn't had an answer for it. Until suddenly it hit me, I had an answer, every feeling of love I'd ever felt came rushing to the front of my memory, just begging to be vocalized. I answered with this...

"To me? Love is among the greatest feelings in the world, if not the greatest. You can feel love towards anything and there are many types of love. You can love doing something, like you love golfing and I love dancing. You can love eating, sleeping, or reading. Love is just that way. You can love and be loved by your family, which to me is one of the truest forms of love... the kind you feel because your family will always be there for you. Your pets or animals can love you, you can tell by the way they protect you or cheer you up. They know it just as well as you and I do. You can love your friends and they can love you, in the platonic way of course. Love for your friends comes from the feelings of trust and happiness you get when you're around them. For the most part, you're friends will stick by you and try their hardest to cheer you up when you're down."

By this point, the person I was talking to was just nodding along, agreeing mostly with what I was saying, and making 'mhm' noises. Then, I turned the tables and asked him a question.

"And there's love love, the special type. Haven't you ever been in love?"

His response, "Well... I've felt love towards and from my friends and family. But no, I've never been in love."

I got into a tizzy when I'd heard this, never been in love? Never been in love?! This person was missing out!

"Well then I feel like you've been robbed because when you're in love and being loved in return... it's amazing. Everything is brighter, you're determined, you're happy, it's like... you can do anything when you're in love. Things are better, everything makes sense. And you know all those cheesy love songs on the radio? You'll smile and find yourself relating to them, thinking that the musician and lyricist wrote this song just for you and your special someone."

The conversation carried on from there, it lasted for about a good hour or so and I felt like it was one of the better discussions I'd had in a long time. His final answer made it just that much better, "This being in love thing sounds good. I'd like to try it."

So that's it, my first quick thought blog post, about one of my favorite things. What can I say? I'm a dreamer, a wisher, and a hopeless romantic.