I learnt something new the other day. Apparently, there's a stage of love between the love you feel for your family and friends, and being in love. Shall we call it pre-in-love? Love 2.0? Whatever.
The love you feel for your family is conditional. The love you feel for your friends is bound up with thankfulness and gratefulness for their being there for you. You love people who are around to cheer you up, or who care for you.
Being in love with someone usually means they set your world on fire, and imagining life without them feels like a kick in the stomach. You want to be with them all the time, you want to share everything with them, you want to make a life with them. You love them because they are the one person who always has to be there for you.
This middle stage is apparently somewhere in between. You love them because they care about you, and have fun with you. But it's more than that... when they're not around, it hurts a little bit. And really, you'd like to talk to them about everything. You're just not sure that they're the One. But there's a good chance that there might be.
The other day, someone told me that they loved me. Loved me in the middle-love type of a way. And it was really scary to know that someone felt like that about me... but it also made me really happy. But then i think they took it back. I'm not totally sure. But i think so. And somehow, knowing that they've taken that away, i really miss it. I didn't know how i felt about it until it was taken away. Now there's a hole in my stomach where that comforting love used to sit... i'm hoping because it wasn't the in-love type of love, it's going to go away sooner rather than later. I really hope that it does.
The love you feel for your family is conditional. The love you feel for your friends is bound up with thankfulness and gratefulness for their being there for you. You love people who are around to cheer you up, or who care for you.
Being in love with someone usually means they set your world on fire, and imagining life without them feels like a kick in the stomach. You want to be with them all the time, you want to share everything with them, you want to make a life with them. You love them because they are the one person who always has to be there for you.
This middle stage is apparently somewhere in between. You love them because they care about you, and have fun with you. But it's more than that... when they're not around, it hurts a little bit. And really, you'd like to talk to them about everything. You're just not sure that they're the One. But there's a good chance that there might be.
The other day, someone told me that they loved me. Loved me in the middle-love type of a way. And it was really scary to know that someone felt like that about me... but it also made me really happy. But then i think they took it back. I'm not totally sure. But i think so. And somehow, knowing that they've taken that away, i really miss it. I didn't know how i felt about it until it was taken away. Now there's a hole in my stomach where that comforting love used to sit... i'm hoping because it wasn't the in-love type of love, it's going to go away sooner rather than later. I really hope that it does.
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