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What It’s Really Like to Fall In Love
It’s every feeling you could ever imagine.
Love doesn’t hit you all at once. The realization that you’re falling in love does. One day you’re looking your person in the eye and you think, “This is it. That feeling everyone talks about? I’m inching toward it.”
You feel it like a spark in your chest, and then you blink and there’s a flame guiding your heart toward that person.
Suddenly the most exciting part of the day is when they text you good morning. All it takes is one look at them and you feel a smile grow on your face. They make you feel safe and warm and you want to know everything about them — the good, the fun, the bad, the ugly.
Falling in love is like swimming to the bottom of a pool, turning on your back, and watching the world through the water.
Before you know it, you’ve gone from falling to fallen. You don’t know how you know, but you do.
The words I love you start forming in the back of your throat. Then you feel them crunching around in your teeth. Next thing you know, they’re on the tip of your tongue and you desperately want to let them burst out of you. Caution be damned.
That was the most shocking part of all. The urgency at which the words wanted to escape me. It felt almost like…
