L-Word

There is a lot behind that tiny little four letter word we use: love. It comes in different forms and varieties and magnitudes and directions. Although the heart symbol we associate with it isn't so anatomically correct, it comes close to our emotional definitions. Love can be a weird concept to grasp and it can also hit us in the face when we look at someone. It can be... Just about anything, I think.

I could never begin to put a definition on love. It isn't a one-size-fits-all kind of subject, and every body finds and experiences love differently. Imposing my personal opinions on so broad a subject would be wrong. However, this is what I have, in my short little lifetime, found love to mean...

Love is seeing someone and smiling without even thinking about it.
Love is trusting someone with all the things you don't trust yourself with.
Love is laughing and having fun when the world is falling apart around you.
Love is wanting to make someone happy, and putting them before everything else if that task is endangered.
Love is looking into someone's eyes and finding the pieces of your life's puzzle you didn't know were missing.
Love is a hug, a kiss, a touch, that makes the gravity of the universe shift around that instant.

Love can be fighting, and regret, and apology, and moving on.
Love can be leaving, if it is the right thing to do.
Love can be selfish and greedy and one sided.
Love can be very, Very needy.
Love can be anxious, waiting for a call or a letter, or the right words, or that big question.

Love is friendship in it's purest form, past silliness and sleepovers, into deep talks and life decisions.
Love is an alliance that you make to help someone through their rough spots, and get the same back in return.
Love is a deep bond that lingers between gazes, sizzles between touches, and buzzes between bodies.

Love makes me the happiest woman in the universe.
Love makes me forget that there are troubles in the world and allows me to believe in a happily ever after.
Love makes me a better person for needing to recognize and appreciate others' values as well as their needs.
Love makes me get up on the mornings I can't see the sun.
Love makes me fight for things I believe in.
Love makes me all of who I can be.
Love is simply... Love.

What is love, to you?

See you when I see you.
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