I love the new Fall Out Boy song solely for that line, which ranks up there with my top movie quotes of all times.
So I’m thinking today.
I don’t think it’s so hard to fall in love. In fact, I think it’s ridiculously easy. I think you can fall in love with someone in an hour, or three days, even if you never see that person ever again. I think you can fall in love with a stranger. I think you can fall in love with a smile, or a pair of hands, or a voice. I think you can fall in love with someone who turns you upside down with nothing more than a glance. I think you can fall in love fast and hard and utterly.
I think you can fall in love with someone you don’t even know; the parts of him that are not yet revealed conveniently filled in with what you want and what you need. It’s easy to fall in love with someone you barely know, so long as you can convince yourself all that remains unknown is exactly what you desire. It’s easy to fall in love with an image, idea, a shadow.
Falling in love is easy.
STAYING in love is the hard part.
M
May 29th, 2007 at 2:03 pm · Link
you’re 100% right, IMHO. lemme tell you about the day sarah changed my life.
we had been seeing each other for a while and were cuddling one night. i said something like ‘i really like you and if we work hard this can really be something special.’
she said ‘i think it should be easy.’
and it was.
and we never looked back.
-a
May 29th, 2007 at 2:14 pm · Link
That is such a lovely story! And it’s true!
And you have a beautiful family.
May 29th, 2007 at 9:19 pm · Link
I think I fall in love every day. I think fall out of love every day too. Mostly with my husband, though. Mostly.
May 29th, 2007 at 9:29 pm · Link
I know what you mean.
Not about your husband. I’ve never met him.
But in general.
May 30th, 2007 at 4:47 am · Link
yup. i like the visual of filling in missing parts btw.
May 30th, 2007 at 9:03 am · Link
hey, Rhian…well, I think that’s how it happens. Then when you discover who the person *really* is…you either stay in love, or you don’t.
May 30th, 2007 at 11:06 am · Link
So very true. It’s easy falling in love. It’s the staying in love that takes so much work…
May 30th, 2007 at 11:09 am · Link
Yes, but it’s what makes it so worthwhile.
May 31st, 2007 at 3:36 pm · Link
Are you sure you’ve never met my husband? Because our child has purple hair and a clown nose.
May 31st, 2007 at 3:43 pm · Link
But those are recessive genes!