Love, The mushy kind

So there are multiple kinds of love, the kind for your family, your friends, and then there's "mushy" love. The "mushy" kind is what I would like to address today. 

So in my years of life I have had an amazing couple to look up to, to show me what love is.

  My Parents 

San Diego, CA 

These two care so much about one another and it amazes me. They are wonderful. I can see it in their eyes and I can see it in their actions. They really love each other, and I only hope that I can find that one day. 

While there are other couples I would like to commend on how strong their relationship looks from the outside in, they most likely wouldn't appreciate being posted here. So I wont but you know who you are. 

I've been asked multiple times what love meant to me, and every time my mind races. I mean I've felt it, I know I have, but can it be defined? You have 1 Corinthians 14:4-7 "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres" and the dictionary says, "a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person". So, maybe you can. 

And what about that feeling you get the butterflies in your stomach, the excitement, the tingling in your fingers and toes, and a racing heart. Some say that it all just wears off over time, but if it does, isn't that sad? Or is it simply just working at it to make that feeling stay? I believe the latter to be true. 

And what happens when love goes wrong? "It's only love when you're loved in return"- Steve Wariner Now I still believe that I loved when it wasn't reciprocated, but I know it wasn't healthy. So where does this stand? Personally I think it's still love, maybe unhealthy love, but love. 

I think that the combination of 1 Corinthians, and the dictionary may tell us what love is, but nothing is better than feeling it first hand. The one thing that I do believe without a doubt is that if you are in love, then you feel it and you don't doubt it. 

I feel that two of my favorite movies sum it all up best...

“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”

- The Notebook 

"Our love is like the wind... I can't see it, but I sure can feel it"

- A Walk to Remember 

So I have to share with you, of course, a piece of my writing, It kinda pertains

Say I Love You 

Verse 1

So close to me you’ll always be

As far as to say a part of me.

The touch of your hand feels so right

How could that have been our last night?

I need your voice in my ear

You say all the things I long to hear.

Your soul is beautiful, mature, and true

But still I’m fearful to say I love you.

Chorus

So open your eyes why can’t you see

From where I’m standing we’re meant to be.

You’re handsome and lovely, and most of all true

I pray someday you’ll tell me I love you

Verse 2

Your eyes are like gates to open your soul.

And once I’m in it’s never proven dull.

Your dreams and your passions are simply enchanting,

Listening to you makes my heart feel like dancing.

But when you say no more or too complicated

I instead wish I was someone you hated.

For I know somewhere in you, this is right,

So tell me will you realize it another night?