Love is so completely unexpected…
I didn’t think that anything or anyone could take my breath away
and yet breathe life into me at the same time...
I didn’t think that time could really stand still when the one
woman I’m meant to spend the rest of my life with suddenly came
into my life and introduced herself, but it did, and it spun
madly out of control all at once...
I didn’t think there was any such thing as love at first sight,
but then I saw her and I wondered how I could have been so
cynical for so long...
I didn’t think that there was someone out there who could make
the blood in my veins come to life as if I’d never even been born until the moment she touched me, and I thought the life in my veins would explode out of my body like so much lava from a volcano...
I didn’t think any woman would ever be capable of amazing me, sweeping me off my feet with everything she says and does...
I didn’t think that the sound of anyone’s voice could reach me from any distance with any amount of noise in the background just because she’s thinking of me, or that anyone would think of me at all...
I didn’t think that I could feel the emotions of a woman without being there with her or that I’d be able to complete her sentences for her...
I didn’t think I’d ever feel so completely surrounded by everything about a woman or that she’d be so completely within every cell of my being, and still so far away...
I didn’t think that this incredibly beautiful woman who just spoke to me in a chat room could totally change the course of my life with that simple greeting or that sweet smile...
And I didn’t think that when I told her in this mad onslaught of emotion that I’d fallen for her that there was the slightest chance she’d say she felt the same…
But she did…
And in all this time after that confession of my deepest feelings, love is still so completely unexpected…
- L.C., 2002
