One Word

Kristen Kappel once said, ~Love is something you can't describe like the look of a rose, the smell of rain, or the feeling of forever.~ Without a doubt, when it comes to love or being in love it can be difficult to describe in words how you feel for that special someone. For it makes you feel good inside to have that guy or girl in your life who means the world to you and you most definitely want to verbally express how you truly feel about him or her from the heart, but you can't. Why? Oftentimes, words aren't enough to accurately describe that one person you thank God every single day for sending him/her to you and vice versa. Essentially, there comes a point where the love you have in your heart can simply best be put into a hopefully understandable metaphor.

Let me ask you this question, do you believe love is capable of making the surrounding air you breathe smell so fresh and sweet. It would be safe to say that every person has heard the old saying that the one you love is like a fresh of air as the purity of his or her love fills your lungs without causing you to experience discomfort as you both inhale/exhale inevitably making it easier for you to breathe. However, it's a sad situation indeed when you've experienced in the past love that ended up leaving you unable to breathe properly because the quality of air from a bad past relationship was tainted as it filled you lungs with so much anger, pain, bitterness, heartache, etc that your heart is, in a sense, suffocating from the lack of truth that you want in a relationship.

If you think about it, love can sometimes be compared to a shining light that brightens your darkest of days. In some apsect, when you share your life with someone who brightens up your day with an encouraging, glowing smile when you're down either physically, emotionally, mentally, and/or spiritually it just lights up your heart. Thinking about it, it's a light that embraces you with the warmth of an everlasting, tender, caring, respectful, compassionate, and loving friendship. How many of you can truly say you have a guy or girl who is not only considered to be your very own guiding light that helped you during a time of experiencing a personal darkness, but never turned his/her back on you when you reached out for him/her to pull you out of it.

Metaphorically speaking, does the love from a potential/significant other compare to that of a solid foundation? In other words, is he or she your proverbial solid rock who is the quintessential strong support system and you absolutely know wholeheartedly that he or she will hold you up when the world around you falls apart. I think we can all agree that in order to have a strong support system you must build a concrete foundation. A foundation in which you pour honesty, trust, faith, love, commitment, communication, hard work, etc. whereby giving the relationship you both built together an excellent chance to thrive, especially when seen or unseen circumstances threaten to shake the foundation to its very core, whereby testing how much strength there really is in the loving relationship.

In retrospect, love is something that is simply indescribable and trying to explain it in words can leave you frustrated. Frustrated in the good kind of way of course because you're with someone who is able to understand what you're trying to say even though you have no idea what you're saying...if that makes any sense to you. Personally speaking, I'm not in love or know the feeling of falling love, but I know the feeling of liking or having a crush on someone. Anyways, I hope someday to be in the position to the point where I have no idea how to describe or say in words how I exactly feel. In the end, when or if I do fall in love all the descriptions wouldn't accurately pinpoint what I want to say, but if it came down to one word it would be...amazing, which is a song by former American Idol contestant Eliot Yamin.