The Real Thing

Will Smith's character Hitch said, ~Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it's the moments that take your breath away.~ If you think about it, throughout life there are moments where we hold our breath with anticipation when it concerns a certain special someone who you either have met already or haven't met yet. In a metaphorical sense, since the time of our birth each of us has been holding our breath waiting for the right guy or girl to walk into our lives and finally tell us to breathe. For it's in that moment of exhaling you breathe out times of frustration, heartache, anger, confusion, and/or disappointment, which has been building up and its been a weight on not only your heart but also on your soul as well.

Let me ask you this question, have you truly met someone who honestly and genuinely takes your breath away and with good reason. Essentially, you've waited all your life for a person who makes you smile from ear to ear no matter how your day was, bad or good. A person who makes you laugh at the things one says or points out that seem insignificant, which shows he or she has a sense of humor that is never failing. In other words, one who can turn a negative into a positive. For this person is considered a blessing from God and yet at times you feel like you aren't deserving of him or her to where you think that person should be with someone else, but that particular thought is quickly squashed.

Without a doubt, when you finally do meet that person who leaves you breathless, he or she seemingly makes breathing easier for you. Of course, there have been those in the past who you thought would absolutely keep you breathing in and out sighs of fulfilling relief, but was it considered premature sighs of relief that caused you to hyperventilate? What do I mean? To simply put, sometimes you can get so excited in a relationship that you choose to overlook certain things he or she does. Unfortunately, its those particular things, whatever they may be, that will turn initial excitement into heartache to where you breathe into a paper bag due to the number of emotions that will overwhelm you, which we've gone through at some point in our lives.

Oftentimes, there comes a point where you will ask yourself questions when it concerns that special someone. Such questions are: Does this person bring out the best in me to where he or she challenges me to reach my greatest potential? Does this person have that north star quality to point and guide my way back to where I got lost in my journey of life? Does this person have a hero/storybook quality and that even though I may have stopped believing in Superman, Cinderella, Prince Charming, Knights in shining armor, etc. it's nice to know that someone is looking out for me. Finally, does this person have the qualities to be my best friend for life who knows me inside and out that he or she is not afraid of who I am, which can be scary.

Someone once said, ~Falling in love with someone is, in essence, not a conscious thing. You can wake up one morning, madly in love with someone, without any inkling how, when, or where your heart decided to beat in his direction. Falling in love is like breathing. You don't plan to do it, but something in your anatomy dictates that you should. That, plus the fact that consciously trying not to will only make you choke and turn blue. But it doesn't mean you won't continue doing it anyway...~ In retrospect, the love you find with that one person will bring/already has brought to your heart true happiness that when you savor each breath when you're around him or her you absolutely know you have the real thing.