LOVE. Falling in love is, without a doubt, one of the most exciting, rewarding and scariest things you could ever do.
Once you fall in love with someone, it is hard to remember how you survived without him or her. It is your life with a meaning, that light to navigate with you through the darkest tunnel and celebrate with you in the light of glory.
Writing about this, I remember when I first fell in love with my now girlfriend. It was a scary feeling, a new feeling. I didn’t know what it was; I couldn’t quite put a finger on it. I hadn’t the faintest idea of what love felt like, what true love felt like because I had managed to elude love for the entirety of my life before her. I specifically remember the transition from when I liked Zozia to when I began to love her and only when I look back now do I see that. Hand down the greatest thing that has ever happened to me.
Zozia went from being someone who made me smile to being the greatest catalyst of the happiness and joy in my life. She went from a gorgeous girl I met to the most beautiful girl I know. She went from my crush to the love of my life.
Now, some people may not agree with what I am saying and I don’t argue with that. Everyone experiences love differently, and at different times under what can be extremely different circumstances. Even the meaning of love is extremely subjective, but I say for certain that anyone who’s experienced it knows it’s the best feeling ever.
Here are 10 ways to know if you might be in love — rather than in like — with someone:
1. Your Number One
Your love will be the first person you think about when you wake up and the last person you think about before you go to sleep. When something good happens to you, this is the first person you want to tell and when something bad takes its turn, you look to this person for help, for support.
2. The Highlight of your day
Seeing my girlfriend is always the highlight of my day. If you really love someone, you never truly get tired of him or her. It’s telling yourself, when I’m alone, I’d rather be with you (him/her). In all honesty, no matter how great your day might be going or how nice your evening might turn out, your special One will make it better. I guess the biggest difference between a someone you like and someone you love is when you like someone, he or she might make your day better, but isn’t the best part.
3. He/she comes first – Priorities.
Love is selfless. I was the important person in my world until I met my girlfriend. Once I fell in love with her, her needs became much more important than my own. As such is a life in love. Your needs always seem trivial in comparison to your Significant Other’s needs.
When you like someone their wants and needs are possibly important however not completely above your own.
4. To hell and back!
If I tried to construct a list of things I wouldn’t do for my girlfriend, the list would be pretty empty – I would, in a heartbeat, run right into hell and back for her and yes, some people say that for the sake of it, but when I say it I mean every word. When you’re in love with someone, you do whatever you can to make the person happy.
When you like someone, you may feel like there is a lot you would do for the person, but you have your limits. True love knows no limits.
5. You won’t stop till the world knows and then some more
I have this semi-bad habit of telling the world how in love I am with my girlfriend.
When you are truly in love, you want everyone to know, the world to know and when they do, you’d move on to the universe. You are not reserved about your feelings by any means and that is where the difference between love and like takes its place. When you like someone, there is a lot of holding back on how you feel, love knows not the definition of limit.
6. Perfect Imperfections
My girlfriend is the most beautiful girl in the world, but she does have some imperfections. But, to me, they’re not imperfections — they’re unique qualities and things I love.
When I tease her about them, she thinks I am making fun of her, but I am truly just admiring them. Love is the ability to know and accept someone’s ‘faults’. The ability to know they’re there and yet not care.
You may know the imperfections of a person you like, but having the capacity to embrace them likely won’t happen unless you fall in love.
7. The future… long term
When you’re in love with someone, it’s hard to imagine a future without the person in it similar to how you wonder how you survived in the past. For this reason, you will think long-term about how you can build a life with this person. You see no other way.
When you just like someone, thinking long-term can be pretty scary.
8. The new you!
No one is perfect. We all have room for improvement. But, being in love will force you to work on these things and most of the time, you won’t even know it.
You want to become the best version of yourself for the person you love. I am a better person now than I was before I met my girlfriend, no doubt about that.
9. Your feelings are unconditional
When you love someone unconditionally, it means that your love is absolute. Your love knows no boundaries nor limits, only the stretch of life, your life together.
When you like someone, your feelings change, how you feel can change, love will stand the test of time, like on the other hand will falter.
10. Your best friend
Sometime along the way, my girlfriend became my best friend. She became my partner in crime. You feel like, together, you can take on the world. I believe this to be true for most people who fall in love.
I hope this does help you guys and gals out there :) Love is a mysterious, scary and yet the most pleasant and welcoming feeling you can ever have. Embrace it, don’t fight it. Accept it, don’t deny it. I wish you all the very best, good luck and have fun
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