What is love, anyways.
Something I used to ask myself all of the time.
What is love?
Something that meant absolutely nothing to me. A foreign concept completely.
I haven’t had a boy not tell me he loves me. It’s that awkward moment in your relationship where you look around to make sure this is real life, and there isn’t someone else standing behind you.
Oh god, then you have to respond. Well, what the hell do I say to that??
I was too self-loathing to love anyone. In the end, I told them what they wanted to hear and I dealt with the torturous consequences, until one day, like word vomit;
“I don’t really love you… because I don’t know what love is.”
That pretty much ended every relationship I never cared about. And now, here I am in the same situation I once fabricated. All of it, unreal, all of the heart I only ever gave to one man is a shattered, broken, discombobulated, dirty, filthy fallacy.
Because he looked me in the eye and told me, “I don’t know what love is.”
…After all of the times I asked him to be honest, to tell me if he didn’t truly love me, and he waited until now. Now, when I felt our love was the strongest.
But he doesn’t have to know what love is, in order for it to be there.
…don’t you see? It’s right in front of all of us. It’s something so simple, and so plain, we strive to understand it, our minds go in circles around it in order to quantify and classify and rectify something that just is.
We’ve lost sight of what love is, because we’ve over-complicated it to fit our hectic life styles. It’s more than a feeling now, it’s a checklist blahblahblah.
Love is in every moment between blinking, in the air we breathe, in the food we eat, in the connections we make, in the physical and non-physical.
Love is that feeling that burns inside your chest for only one person.
Love is the kindling of that fire, even after it’s been ignited.
It’s seeing the one you care for smile, knowing you have the power to warm them up.
Waking up next to that one person, and upon opening your eyes and making contact with theirs, you understand one another. They see you for all that you are, and you love yourself that much more.
It’s when your fingers touch in the middle of the night, and through all of the layers of deep, unconscious sleep, you still recognize that they’re with you, right beside you, a certainty.
It’s the feeling of emptiness when you watch them turn their back and walk away. And you know, down to the core, that you will never be the same without them.
So don’t anyone ever tell me that you don’t know what love is.
Because it’s right in front of you.