The L word.

Love is a many splendid thing.

All you need is love.

Love lifts us up where we belong.

Love is all around us. 

Love has made a circle that holds us all inside.

I love you like a love song, baby.

Love me, love me, say that you'll love me.

L. is for the way you look tonight.

I have a strong opinions about love.

My opinion about love is that NO ONE should have the right to have an opinion about how another loves. 

Or who they love. 

Or what they love. 

Or how they love. 

Love is different for everyone. 

It wacky, strange, wonderful and beautiful. 

It can change, morph and grow.

It can be everlasting or short-lived. 

It can be comforting or dangerous. 

It can be the kind of love you see in fairy tales, or the kind that makes you want to run for the hills. 

It makes us do silly things that maybe one day we will look back on with regret and sadness. 

But in the moment it feels so perfect...

So, right... 

Oh, I bet you are wondering who I have been in love with...

As I rant about love. 

I must be a master. 

I must know all the ins and outs of love. 

Well, here it is:

I have never been "In Love" with a man or women. 

At least,

Not in societies sense of the word. 

But,

I have come to the conclusion that for me, there is little difference in romantic love and platonic love. 

I love everyone about the same. 

I do not think that love has to mean having sex. 

There is a difference between sex and love. 

(Although I think it's smart to attach the two)

I find myself falling in love with total strangers and my best friends. 

I find myself loosing myself to each of my new acquaintances.

Doing silly things to impress them. 

Trying to make them love me, like I think I love them. 

This is why I don't think I can ever hold a grudge for longer than a day. 

Because I love everyone enough that it doesn't matter if they were mean to me yesterday...

I forgive them. 

I love them and want to make it work. 

No matter what. 

I find myself running back to people that should have been left out of my life along time ago.

Yes, I realize this will one day be my downfall. 

I am thankful that I haven't ever fallen for someone who has realized that trait about me. 

Because that downfall could give them power over me.

A dangerous power. 

But, I think that love is one of those things that we should try to make work, no matter what.

If you were once in love, I believe you can be in love again.

Maybe not in the same way...

I understand that sometimes breaking up is the BEST THING someone can do to continue loving someone. 

But, I believe that love is what you make it. 

It is what you need it to be. 

It takes different forms at different times in your life.

There is a beauty in each kind of love. 

I find it ridiculous that any one person, religion, or society try to tell us who we should love.

If someone wants to marry their best friend, who are we as a society to say that that isn't real love?

The people that limit their love to sexual relationships are missing out!

Falling in love with someone makes you realize a little bit more about yourself. 

It opens your eyes to a new way of life and new part of your soul.

It opens your eyes to the wonders of each person, the ups and the downs. 

Okay, enough about love...

What I love even more?

Crushes. 

I still crush on people like I am in middle school.

I still giggle, smile like an idiot and make a fool of myself. 

I still babble and stumble around my sentences and words. 

I still become speechless if I stand too close to someone I like. 

I still replay moments in my head...

And blush when a cute person walks by.

I LOVE crushes. 

They are what make me want to look good when I walk outside. 

They are what make me walk a certain way to class.

I am way too obvious when I like someone. 

But, in my opinion, why SHOULDN'T I be? 

If I like someone, I would rather be upfront about it rather than wondering for the rest of my life

"What if?"

All that being said, the only crush I have on anything right now is this song:

Enjoy!