Heaven On Earth

Neil Gaman once said, ~Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something one day like kiss you or smile at you and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you...It hurts not just in the imagination, not just in the mind. Its a soul hurt, a real-gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart-pain.~

You have to admit, it would truly be a wonderful world if you didn't have to go through the pain and suffering that comes with love such as rejection. Every person, whether one wants to admit it or not, has been rejected by someone who he or she was initially interested in/in love with or vice versa. Depending on the type of rejection and the number of times, it can affect a person to where one can have his or her heart turn on and off like a proverbial light switch, which sounds cold, but you have to look at it from their perspective. For it would be so much simpler if the things that complicated love like rejection would be taken out of the equation, but one can only dream of that every happening.

When it comes to love, we all metaphorically wear a suit of armor to protect ourselves from seriously getting hurt especially from within our heart. Yet, no matter how thick one's armor is or how well protected you are, somehow someone who you didn't intend to fall for, pierces through our armor and into our heart. We've all been in or are going through that particular situation to where you completely let down all your defenses, which leaves you totally vulnerable not only in your heart but your soul as well. Essentially, you consequently open yourself up to him or her but unfortunately that someone of interest may not, which leaves you without a parachute to safely float to the ground, in a manner of speaking, as you take that leap of faith.

As it was said before by Nel Gaman, all it can take is either a kiss, smile, or something to wake your heart up. It's that so-called wake up call that gets inside your head to where you want to know more about that person not in a stalking, creepy sort of way; but rather in a genuine fondness way. As a guy, you want to know what her favorite flower, color, smell is and not only that you want to genuinely get to know her by finding out her hopes, dreams, likes, dislikes, as well as, plans for the future. I know for all women, it's a rarity these days to meet a guy who takes the time to get to know you inside as well as out and for a woman, that guy is considered a dream come true.

In retrospect, a person can spend a lifetime waiting for love that can make you happy and yet miserable at the same time, but in a good way. It's the happiness deep down in your soul, the happy misery that you've always wanted and yet it's not fixable when things don't work out as you expected. Yet despite the pain, suffering, and rejection you, as well as, your heart kept getting back up after being knocked down. Ultimately every person has made this statement: ~When I fall in love I want it to last forever.~ In the end, it will or has come true for you to where it always feels like heaven on earth and a song that reflects this thought comes from the movie Sleepless in Seattle entitled When I Fall In Love by Celine Dion & Clive Griffen.