It's hard to say why we love the people we do. People say there are a million ways to lose someone, which is true, but there are also a million ways to love someone. And the thing about it is, you can't ever really put your finger on why it's this person, out of the other six billion on the planet, that you've chosen to love. I will never be able to fully tell you why I love my parents, why I love my siblings, my cousins, my Nana and my Aunt and Uncle. I Couldn't tell you why I love my friends, some of my coaches. I couldn't tell you why I love the songs I do. I couldn't tell why why I love my childhood friend so very much, and that when she leaves, It's feels like someone is tearing a hole in my back with their nails.
I couldn't tell you why, I couldn't tell you how much I love some of these people. The only thing I could tell you is that it feels right. And not only that, but it makes you feel good to love someone with the entirety of your soul. Like I said in one of my earlier posts, which is a really good example of this, I got my friend a pair of earrings for her birthday, and the fact that she was happy to get them, felt better than any present I ever get will.
When you are little, you love your parents because they are your parents and you have to love them. But when you get older, and you start to think and realize and really and truly love them, life becomes infinitely more complicated. You make sacrifices for the ones you love, you want to be a better person for the people you love.
But life becomes scarier when you love someone, because you risk the possibility of losing them. And you have to make tough decisions, make scary and dangerous and downright stupid moves to keep them. And, to quote an earlier blog post, "that's what you do when you love somebody."
My friend's dad once told us, when we were about ten, that loving someone is a lot like taking a plunge into a freezing cold, shark infested lagoon. He went on to say that it will most likely be the scariest thing you've ever been faced with, had to do. But he said that, without fail, he would do it every time for my friend, and her siblings, and her mom, because he loved them more than anything in our world.
Whatever we do in this life insignificant. Some people could make the argument that taking that plunge into the lagoon is not worth it, and they'd probably be right. And I bet one day, and I'll be standing on a rock ledge above that lagoon, looking down into those hungry sharks mouths, into the freezing cold water.
And I'll take the plunge, every time. Because that's what you do, when you really, and truly love someone.
"You belong to me, I belong to you."
"Because I love you, and that's all I know right now, and I'm on a journey, and as long as your on that journey, I'll be okay, I'll be okay."
"Deep inside, the feeling always stays the same."
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