On Being in Love
Matt Harrison

It's inexplainable, really. She rescues you. Your heart is resurrected as everything else becomes strangely secondary. It's certainly not a responsible way to live; your other friends, duties, responsibilities and interests become distant echoes out on these uncharted waters. Yes, you are in love.

You suddenly stop and wonder when your life took on this new meaning. Just think about it. Time now exists simply to plot the intervals between seeing her. Desultory events absorb new profound meanings and signs that serve as incontrovertible evidence that indeed, she is the most amazing person you've ever met. Amazing is too weak of a word, perhaps, to verbally reify the way she changes your world.

Sleep is an obstacle; its depravation now becomes alluring when it allows you even one more beautiful thought of her. Your heart becomes your new employer, instructing you to rehearse, ad nauseam, that first sentence you will utter when you see her again. Yes, speech is everything. You run it over in your head, and yet it comes out wrong. You then shoot a prayer to the God who blessed you with proximity to this angel, pleading that He will not let her lose interest due to your undeniably pathetic speech.

Every second is an eternity, and every syllable of speech becomes paramount. What to do when you are trying to impress a girl who holds the string that is tying your head in the clouds?

Oh, she has you, certainly. You are running sensitivity analyses in your mind every minute. What if she says...? You try desperately to plan. You know that at the same time that this girl has suspended your ability to think rationally, the fate of your heart is reliant upon victory in this emotional chess game.

You read into everything. When she touched me, was it intentional? You convince yourself so. You are frozen into inertia at the same time that you silently plead for more signs. Wouldn't it be great if you could just tell her these things?

Forget hyperbole, you know you lived without her. And yet, seeing her, you can't live without her. Perhaps it is ignorance. Yes, you one time lived in splendid isolation. Was it happy? Maybe, but certainly not as happy as I feel now that I am in love with a girl who puts a face to the concept of a beauty and a personality to the concept of perfection.

Ecstasy has no greater example than this. She has you. And God, is it beautiful.

This is what girls do to us. So why would they waste their time with guys who can't see them in the angelic light that now floods our world?

 

 

 

 

 

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