That Nasty Little Love Thing

Take 2.

I had planned for this blog to be the debut of my ipad blogging experience, but alas I am a dumbass. 

I never save things when I should!!

So.  This was/is supposed to be about love.  I wrote out this whole scene of my first time. and how it was all kind of like a dream, and my whole outlook on the experience of being in love, but now, you get the short version.

Some of you may be thanking me... You are welcome.

Anyway... Down to the nitty gritty.

I love you.

Duuuute!

That shit is heavy.  It can make or break you in a second.  Those three little words have been getting some serious air time from the dawn of time, and let's face it.  Why shouldn't it?

That is pretty much the greatest compliment you can give someone.  It only has such strings attached because of all the stigma surrounding it.

The One.

Now there is a fairy tale you hear repeated on the radio and television and pretty much anything else.  I don't know if I fully buy into it though, to be honest.

I prefer to think of it more like a collection.  I will have many loves.  Some that fade.  Some that morph.  Some that were never meant to last.  Others that grow stronger.  Still others that are never realized, or admitted.  Some may even coincide.

A web of memories, shared secrets and whispered affections.

Nothing is forever, and yet everything lives on.

I love you.

I wish it wasn't such a hard word.  Such weight.  I can easily say it to friends and family.  The ease of it, astounding.  Yet romantic love, that is supposed to be reserved, or if it isn't and things end, are we supposed to question it?  Why?

Just because things end or morph into something different, why does that automatically mean that the experience is less important or real.

That's just the way it is.  Life is ever changing, and we just have to learn how to roll with the punches and get what we can out of it.

How many times have you been in love?

How do you know it's real?

When is an appropriate time frame in which to say those three deadly words?