What is Love?

You ever wonder what it is that causes us to fall in love?

From where do these feelings come? Is it simply a biological reaction? My pheromones attract him the same way his pheromones attract me. Is it a physical thing? Something about each of us attracts the other. Is it a mental thing? A spiritual thing? (No, I don't mean religious.) Is it simply what God decided? Now I'm being religious.

Not only do I wonder where these feelings originate, but also I wonder how we know when to be confident about them. Why is it that in certain realms, I can feel the same way about two different people, but one of them can be the right person for me and the other can't? How do you know for sure when to hang up the towel, cash in your chips and leave with your earnings? And how can you trust a feeling like that when it surfaces after only a month or two?

How is it that I can go from 4 months ago thinking that moving away for school will be the best thing that could happen for me to now thinking that moving away for school will be a trying, scary period of life I try to survive without losing one of the most important people in my life. It brings me to tears just thinking about what that might be like. I won't just be working hard on my schoolwork, research, and student teaching. I'll have to be putting in the effort to maintain the best thing that's ever happened to me.

More thoughts later...

"I wanna walk and not run
I wanna skip and not fall
I wanna look at the horizon
And not see a building standing tall
I wanna be the only one
For miles and miles
Except for maybe you
And your simple smile

Oh it sounds good to me
Yes it sounds so good to me"
-Dixie Chicks