What Is Love? Baby Don't Hurt Me, Don't Hurt Me, No More.

Insert Cheesy 90's Love Song

Love might be one of the most overused and misinterpreted words in the English dictionary. Love (n.) -an intense feeling of deep affection. That's the common definition of the word. But love is so much more than that. Love is a decision. You decide to stay with that one person through the best of times and the worst of times. It's not love until you truly struggle and still come out of the rut together. You're deciding to embrace that person for who they were, who they are, and who they will be all at once. Love has no boundaries. I'm talking about family and friends as well as significant others. Love is about having a bad day but seeing that one person that changes your mood completely around, even if only for a few minutes. Love is being happy when that other person is happy. Love is just being together. It's knowing that you're not alone. It's also knowing that at any second you can just leave and see the world, but you wouldn't leave that person for the world.
But sometimes you don't get to make that decision on your own. Sometimes it just happens whether you want it to or not. One day you're talking like old friends and the next day, you get a nervous feeling around them and you don't know why or how to stop it. Sometimes it happens with multiple people at once. But I'm no expert so I'm not going to try to tell you what to do in either of these situations.
As for me, I'm alright right where I am with awesome friends and amazing family. I want to see the world and do what I want to do before I feel tied down. I don't want to feel guilty for anything I do and I don't want to worry about how I look or what comes out of my mouth. Because that's what happens with love. You suddenly become conscious of everything you do. I just want to be myself by myself. And I know a lot of people will come along that will love me for who I am but I just can't make that commitment. I know that I can't and I won't because I know someone is going to get hurt. And I swear some people don't believe me when I say that it's not them, it's me. I probably love my friends just as much as I would love someone I was dating anyways.
So here's to the ones who are in love and the one's who are single because there's nothing wrong with either.
This Valentine's Day, don't mope around just because you're single. There's so many things to love. Love that you're alive. That you're here and you're around people that love you. Your Valentine doesn't have to be your crush (as awesome as that would be). It's just someone that (I'm getting a little bit hippie here) shares the love with you. And who knows, maybe tomorrow I'll find out that I'm wrong about everything.