A Complicated Four-Letter Word

As someone who hasn't been inlove yet, I want to gain an understanding of this kind of love.

This is the kind of love everyone knows about: True love between two people. The love that gives you butterflies in your stomach. Makes you willing to reach for the stars, or steal the sun.

I don't understand it. Are people who are inlove experiencing some abnormalities?

Imagine butterflies are really flying around in your tummy. Scientifically, it is ridiculous; no butterfly would survive in someone's stomach.

Come again? Reaching for the stars? Look, they just look so tiny because they are light years away from us, but these are large bodies of gas, I mean pretty large. Look, the sun is a star, too, and it is even bigger than the earth we are living in! Who would dare touch the stars? One would've died even before he reaches the atmosphere unscratched.

Of course, everything I just said are products of sarcasm. To all people inlove out there, please don't take it seriously.

Love really makes people do impossible things just for the ones they love. It takes a lot of courage to sacrifice one's life for the sake of another, and I think the strongest source of the willingness and courage is love itself.

Love is indeed a complicated word, only four letters, but has no definite meaning until now. Don't get me wrong here, though. If you google it, you can see millions of love definitions.

Well, as for me, no words nor universe could ever explain this thing. It isn't just a feeling, neither a state, it's a noun. An indescribable noun. Period.

You may wonder why I am suddenly babbling about love here, when I already stated above that I haven't experienced romantic love yet. Haha, I wonder too. There are different types of love, and, I think you already know where I will focus on today.

We can sometimes recognize someone who's inlove. The way a man's eyes shine like no other when those orbs are focused on to the love of his life. The sincerest smile, full of affection we can see through her whenever she's with him. It's really unbelievable how two persons, initially considered strangers in the beginning, eventually found home in each other's arms. Does it interest you as well?

Who would have known a person would be comfortable showing his/her inner side to that lucky one? I personally would just not let myself be vulnerable in front of another person. For some wonderful reason, love makes these unexplainable things possible.

"I have something to say when I see you—
I think of a person when I see you.
When I first saw you that one day
You looked at me, like the sun, like destiny,
That one person on that beautiful day.."

Wow. This thing, too. Love at first sight.

Is it really true? Does it really happen? Like suddenly hearing the angels from heaven singing, or the surroundings become brighter with some cherry blossoms falling, when the person finally meets the one?

I mean, pretty much all of the love story-centered movies have shown these occurrence always.

"Even on a dark moonlit winter night when I saw you,
Shine clearly with the beautiful stars
This is dreamlike love don't you know yet?
You always change me,
I'm happy to be here"

There has to be some kind of a spell here. How powerful love is, as just a mere sight of the love of your life suddenly erases all the hurt, and stuff that gave you a bad day.

How worth it are all the exhausting activities and workloads, since another person's smile is enough to re-charge one's energy.

I have also heard about "Love being able to change a person."

While I know this doesn't happen everytime, I just remembered a story I heard from my friend back in my highschool days.

She said her mother has met a guy in the past. A guy that is considered a black sheep in the family. This guy refuses to go to school, and goes to play games instead. Until one day, he meets a girl.

This girl made his cold heart warm, and inspired him to become a better person. When this guy and the girl finally pursued a relationship, the guy immediately abandoned all his vices, and became a good father in the end.

You might have heard of a similar story, too. Sometimes, a person just needs love to bring out the real good in him/her. Though this doesn't happen to everyone, it's still remarkable how love works mysteriously like this.

"Lalalalala Lalalalala
I miss you more today."

Why is it that even I just saw him yesterday, I already miss him? It feels like forever since we last talked and I want him to be here now.

I think many can relate to this. The longing for that someone you love every single second of the day. It's like a half of you is missing when that person is away.

Love can bring about a strong inner connection between two people, an intimate bond that makes their relationship stronger, and sweeter. And that connection, interestingly, is just exclusive for that couple alone. It's hard to comprehend, but it's just like that.

"I keep laughing when I see you—
The excitement that comes to mind when I see you,
I was hidden by the clouds abovе;
But you look at me with you heart, love so sweet
So bеautiful I can feel it."

Nothing can ever see through someone's real persona but a real love, maybe. Others can judge someone, based on how they see that person on the surface.

But they say real love comes in, with ever so understanding eyes that see through the mask worn by that significant other. While others see a wrecked mess, love sees beauty; others think of slanders, love of care and welfare so selfless.

"When I see you, my feelings in my frozen heart
Bloom like pretty flowers in warm spring,
This is dreamlike love don't you know yet?
You always change me
I'm happy to be here."

Even the sun sometimes gives up in melting the glaciers in Antarctica. But how enduring love could be, as it could soften even the hardest of hearts, melt the frozen ones, cultivate something beautiful there, and let it grow like a full-blown garden no one has ever seen before.

Imagine a flower blooming in the middle of the winter? Sounds far from reality, but it exists, doesn't it? Like love, indeed.

"In the same time
Always stay with me
Until I can protect you from the pain
You’re my only love from heaven.."

This is puzzling. Everyone has their own pain to deal with, how can he/she even think of involving and helping someone else deal with it? Wow.

It really baffles me, but I admit, I find this beautiful. Maybe love is really supposed to be this beautiful.

And what? "Love from Heaven?" Oh, he did not just say, she is an angel! Gosh! It's so cringy—wait, my heart's fluttering a bit.

"All of the times I talk to you as I look at you,
Feel like forever, it makes me stop in place.
A love like a dream, don't you know my heart
You always change me
I'm happy to be here."

Okay, I think this was what my classmate meant, when she said that time is so fast when she's with her boyfriend, but it flows so slow, when they are separate from each other.

Love somehow tries to defy time, at least in this context. If only the world could stop for a bit when the lovers are together, so saying goodbye won't be too soon.

Love is really something. I have never become as curious as today, on what love has for people to be drawn into it effortlessly, making them do weird, or even unexpected things just for their loved ones.

However, I think I will never ever decode the secret code love has. And it's what makes it beautiful—the element of unpredictability.

What I broke down today as a way to understand love a little more, is a song by Tomorrow X Together.

The title is "Love Sight", it is a Korean Song that served as the soundtrack for the K-Drama titled "Doom at your Service."

This song, I think, is beautiful, in that it depicts the realness of love, the sincerity, gratitude, and longing along with it.

There are a lot out there that we consider a love song. It isn't those people that are inlove who only can listen to these songs.

We, single people, have ears, too. LOL, these songs make our heart flutter, too. Like this song; I think I have made a Spotify playlist just to listen to it repeatedly. The melody, the emotions, and even the lyrics are all on point.

Maybe, just maybe, if I ever get to be in a relationship with someone, I gotta sing this song for him at least once.

Now, I think you now understand why I am talking about love in the middle of the year. It is not even Valentines' Day, but it just felt right to talk about it.

I mean, love should be celebrated everyday right? It is what makes this world a better place, to some, even the reason why they wake up in the morning.

To some, love is the source of their happiness and inspiration. And to others, it's something that gives them thrills.

If you want to re-read the article while listening to the song, you can play this video I embedded from Youtube.

I must say, not everyone maybe meant for a romantic kind of love. We have witnessed, at least once in our lives, those people that remained single until they got old. Are they not happy? I guess they still are.

Having a significant other may not be direction other people are pursuing in their lives, and I think, that's okay. It's their lives, and they know what makes them happy, even it's not a who.

As I've said, there are different kinds of love. Choose where you want to be, it's your life. Nevertheless, I wish you a happy love life, full of butterflies in your stomach, or flowers blooming inside your heart, and a pink, hearty background wherever you go. (Haha!)

This is my second entry for @Peter-Molnar's writing challenge, #InspiredBySongs . I had a good time. To everyone there, I hope you join this challenge, too. :)

Enjoy love! It's free.

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