Love

Love...this word has so many meanings for so many people. "I love pizza" "Oh god, I LOVE that song" "I love you" "Do you love me?" "We used to love each other, what happened?" Love is also something we take for granted. Love can not be bought but it can be lost. Love is what fuels us but also cripples us at times.

I consider myself to be a lucky guy, I have a girl who I love and who actually loves me too. Admittedly I have taken this love for granted as the years have gone by. As of late though, I find myself remembering why I fell in love with this girl in the first place.

When I first saw her she was wearing her lacrosse uniform and carrying her book-bag under her arm and she took my breath away. I thought to my self, self...this the girl for me. After a short time I finally took her to a movie, well to be honest she drove (I paid). I can remember how nervous I was that night. I probably tried on five different outfits before settling on jeans and a t shirt. When she arrived I had about 100 butterflies in my stomach, I was silent for most of the night and during the movie I kept...cracking my neck (a tick I was unaware of). Later I would come to find that she believed I had something wrong with me...cracking my neck endlessly throughout a movie.

A short time later I saw her in a dress for the first time and she looked so perfect. To this day I have a picture of her in her prom dress smiling at the camera from her seat in the limo. In this picture, the love of my life looks like a princess and am lucky enough to be with her. I remember now the first time I said "I love you." I was so nervous that she would not feel the same way, but I threw caution to the wind and said it. Luckily she replied "I love you too." In that moment she took my breath away just the same way as the first time I saw her.

After these years I am still in awe that this beautiful, smart, and funny girl found something in me that she liked and has stuck with me all this time.

I love you and I cannot imagine my life without you. You are the most beautiful woman I have ever met and you are the one I have been waiting for since before I even knew what love was. I cannot express how great full I am that you have come along.