Love at First Sight

"Do you believe in love at first sight?"
-http://staff.esuhsd.org/danielle/english%20department%20lvillage/journals.html




I believe that love at first sight is something we all want to believe in, something that is written about, something that is sung about, and something that is thought about so often. Each generation takes this "love at first sight" and makes it into their own. In each generation, we make movies, songs, books, poems... all about love at first sight. "Love at first sight cause when I saw you for the first time I knew we were meant to be as one" is a lyric from a 90's song, I believe, that I heard when I was 12 years old. Why did I like this song? It wasn't because I believed in love at first sight (I was only twelve!) but because of the tempo and beat. As I have grown in 8 years, do I believe in first sight now? I honestly do not know the answer to that. I myself am not a romantic. I believe that romance is sweet and is great, but it is not something I think about all the time. However, I do hope that there is such thing as love at first sight for all the little girls out there wishing upon their beautiful wedding with the perfect man (such as my sister). I want to believe that something so magical and unscientific can occur.

But my logical side begs to differ that this is even possible. How do you fall in love with a person (not their looks) at first sight? You do not know this person, you do not know who they are as a person, their likes, their dislikes, their annoying habits, their favorite movie, their favorite song, and etc. When really, that is what makes a person fall in true love, is known who someone is on the inside, not the outside. Seeing someone is seeing who they are on the outside, their looks, their clothes, their hair. But knowing and falling in love with a person is feeling comfortable with the person, knowing what they think, knowing what they know and like, knowing who they truly and deeply are and feeling a connection above nothing else. True love is never wanting to leave this person, wanting to be with this person forever. True love is fluttered, racing heartbeats even after 5 years of knowing them. True love is realistically knowing that this person is the one that you want to spend the rest of your life with.

Have a ever felt love at first sight? No. But I have felt puppy love at first sight. I have felt " he is so cute " at first site. Have I ever been in love? I do not know. I honestly do not. I am still questioning this, myself.


September 27th, 2011.