Love Is

Someone once said, ~I don't pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me; love is knowing all about someone and still wanted to be with them more than any other person; love is trusting them enough to tell them everything about yourself, including the thing you might be ashamed of; love is feeling comfortable and safe with someone, but still getting weak in the knees when they walk into a room and smile at you.~ Let me ask you this question, do you think love can be defined? If you think about it, when it comes to love, every person is given the opportunity to give their own personal definition of what love means to them and today being Valentine's Day I am taking this opportunity to share with you my definitions of what love means to me.

Essentially, love means never losing the feeling you get when you become nervous to the point where you are sick to your stomach. For it's a seemingly dangerous but harmless condition that every person has suffered from at one time or another and it's called having the proverbial butterflies. In a sense, the feelings you have for someone metaphorically flutter around within your internal organs and wreak havoc, in a good way of course. It's those butterflies that twist, turn inside out, and tie up your stomach in so many knots you aren't able to concentrate, but it's an experience like any other. Let me tell you something, no matter what age you are, don't ever forget what those butterflies feel like because if you do, you end up basically losing one of the best parts of falling in love.

Oftentimes, love means allowing yourself to feel the true authenticity of someone who is so real it overwhelms you emotionally. You see, there is a moment where you start out just wanting to have fun with someone without any emotional attachment, but somewhere along the line that fun stops and becomes absolutely serious as the realization hits you hard to where you're scared out of your mind. The feelings you try so hard to suppress in order to not get in the way of what you initially intended to do come to the surface and you end up facing reality. For the reality is shown by tears being shed and its tears of happiness rather than sadness because you've come face to face with someone who you want to get to know ever more and its a rarity these days to make that kind of real connection.

For the question can be asked, do you have the ability to see the one you love each day with fresh eyes? Thinking about it, love means being able to see from within your heart certain things about a person that even though you've seen it a million times before like a particular mannerism or getting excited over something trivial, you not only still smile from ear to ear, but you also laugh because you continue to find it oddly cute. It's the seemingly insignificant little details, not just the big ones in a relationship that matter most because it lets you rediscover a whole new side that you never knew before and it most definitely refreshes the passion you have in your heart, which gives you a chance to live each day with that someone special as if you met for the very first time.

In retrospect, there is no exact definition of love giving you the opportunity to interpret it as you see it and for the most part there is neither a right nor wrong answer. Saying that additional definitions come to my mind about love such as acting immature in a mature way, knowing someone finally gets "it" about you, and my personal favorite is seeing THE most beautiful woman in the world in a crowd full of beautiful women. Ultimately, the words you want to express can be simple and don't always have to be a long complicated explanation that completely confuses anybody from trying to understand it. In the end, when it comes to searching within your heart and soul for a meaningful definition, can you in your own words be able to define what love is and it's a song by Brian McKnight and Regina Velasquez that best reflects this thought. Happy Valentine's Day!