Lose Your Mind and Love

By Lisa M on August 11th, 2009

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Love is patient.

Love is kind.

Love is not rational.

When I picked up and moved cross-country for a man I had been dating for five months I couldn’t even justify it to myself.  All I could say was that I felt guided.  Something in my gut told me to take a chance.  And something in my gut told me that this was it. I met my match. It was a strange, undeniable fact embedded deep in my heart and mind.

The only people who understood how I just knew I was in love and had met my match were other irrational humans who fell in love – utterly, hopelessly, and instantly. Others told me I was in lust or had gone completely crazy. Is it possible to stay in love after love at first site happens?

While out to lunch with my boyfriend’s grandparents, I asked his grandfather to detail how he met his wife.  He told me about their first date and ended the story by looking in to his wife’s eyes, and saying, “The gods were at work, weren’t they?” Sixty years and five children ago, they just knew.

Love requires a leap of faith. And in today’s world where we can easily research facts with our Google machines, verify information with the touch of a button on our iPhone, love gets a bad rap. Somewhere along the way, we have been taught not to trust our inner voice when it speaks to us.

Countless movies depict people instantly falling in love – and I say it does happen. Love at first site exists. The tough part is figuring out how to keep that initial feeling alive and well, once the day-to-day routines start to set in. Each day, we must fall in love again, remembering what it is about our partner that we absolutely adore.

So the next time you feel yourself falling, let it happen. Surround yourself by other couples who are loving and supportive and tell the naysayers to keep on being lost and not in love. I think we all know the happier place to be.

(Anna Cotta and Ed Yourdan)