What Love is All About
LOVE ISN’T:
It is not about how early in life you say you found love.
It is not about beating your friends to it,
your foes, or even your divorced parents
who are searching for it again.
It’s not about how good-looking she is,
how sweet smelling, how gentile touching,
or even how soothingly seductive.
It is not about wanting love before you’re ready to handle it
or needing to settle down with someone
just because you’re afraid of being alone.
It’s not about saying “I love you” for safety’s sake.
It is not a game because it has no beginning or ending –
it is something that develops over time
and lasts throughout time.
It's status is not used to make an ex-girlfriend jealous,
and it is not compared or ranked
against another couple’s love.
LOVE IS:
Love is a feeling of oneness with one other person.
A feeling of completion,
like the spring and the winter joining with the summer
and the fall – creating the year.
Love is unique and it comes unexpectedly.
Love exists for some time
but being “in love” begins by a spark
that cannot be seen, cannot be rushed,
and cannot be initiated by material possessions.
It is in that instant you look at her and have a revelation,
and you know for the first time you cannot live without her.
When that spark is ignited and while it burns,
everything seems so simple and worry-free
because she is all that matters.
In that instant, she looks different,
not necessarily better or worse,
just in a different light.
You realize all you have been missing in life.
You realize life is just starting,
even if you’re 90 and first finding love.
Each person finds true love at a different age,
in a different place,
and in a strange and exceptional manner unique in itself.
It doesn’t, necessarily, have to be during a romantic moment,
at an exciting sporting event, stranded on a desert island,
or at the movie theater watching “Romeo and Juliet.”
It just has to be right;
you have to look into her eyes.
When it’s right, you will know,
but until that memorable moment,
keep doing what you’re doing
and let the puzzle pieces fall in place.
