What is love, baby don't hurt me.

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I've been learning a lot. I still have a ways to go, we all do. Love is an enigma, love is something that you can't really explain or add up, that is what makes it the most beautiful emotion we can possess. All we can do is jump in, once it's there you can't make it go away. You can't tell it to stop waking you up at night, or put it under the bed till you feel like dealing with it. It does not matter how many times that asshole love has taken your heart and crushed it till you can't breathe, or punched a hole in your chest leaving you breathless and broken for years. Love is there waiting for you again, around some dark moonlit alley acting all sneaky and cocky because it knows you can't deny it no matter how hard you try or how difficult it makes your life. So you set yourself up for the inevitable, a pain so deep your soul feels like it's trying to claw it's way out of your skin.. Or maybe, just maybe.. This time could be different. Maybe you turn into that couple you have heard about through a friend of a friend. You know the one, they've been in love for 20 years, they still listen to "their" song late at night and slow dance, they leave each other love letters in the morning for the other to read with breakfast, they still look at each other with so much feeling and intensity your sure the other one might spontaneously combust. It's real, it's what we all want out of this life and I'm crossing my fingers that today or someday we all find it, we deserve it. Here's a little clip I found, read it and have hope.

“Love isn’t about the romantic nights or gifts. It isn’t about fireworks going off around you when you have that first, real, kiss. Love isn’t about kissing in the rain and dancing beneath the stars. It isn’t about the big moments or the big surprises. Love is not a fairytale. Love is about still having the butterflies after years. It’s about the second looks and laying in bed wide awake, all night, because you can’t go to sleep mad at each other. It’s about being willing to sacrifice, literally, everything for someone, just because you care so deeply for them. It’s not about buying them gifts, but it’s about leaving them little presents here and there, just to remind them that you are constantly thinking about them. Love is about all of the little things, that add up to really big things. Love is rare and special, but should not be treated as if it will break. Love needs to be thrown around and beat up a little bit, worn in, but not worn down. Love needs to be a comfortable feeling, a place to go when NO ONE else in the world can relate. A safe place, where you know that no matter how ugly you look or how angry you are, you will still be… loved.”