Weddings have definitely penetrated my cynical state of mind over the past few weeks. I watched as a series of people promised to love each other the way they love each other now, but say that they'll do it forever. That's one helluva promise. Who knows who this person will be in 20 years, right? But all of those kinds of questions I'll put aside (that's another post).The best part of these weddings in particular is that I truly feel that they'll keep the promise. I never thought I would be so happy to see my friends so happy.
When you find it, I suppose you just know. At least, that's what they say. There has to be something that tells you, "this is the person that will make my life the same and different everyday...and I want them...all the time." Or maybe it's not as intricate as that. Maybe it's just something that tells you, "this is the one that I want to see ".
I know everyone is searching for someone to make them just that little bit happier, smarter, stronger than they are by themselves. Even the jaded and jilted singles out there. Don't lie, you want it. The kind of love that you read about. The kind that lasts for a lifetime.
For a long time I wasn't sure that it existed for everyone. That maybe some of us just were strong enough to be the life-long single ones. That we love the idea of love more than ever finding someone to fit the expectations of it. That maybe it's just not in the cards for us and that a happy and full life can be had with family and friends.
There's a part of me that may never look past those concepts, but I can say that after seeing people that I've grown up with find happiness and then stand-up and say they want it for keeps, well, it may have taken the hopeless out of this romantic and replaced it with hopeful.
Have you found it yet?
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what do you do when you thought you found it, but it turns out you were wrong....
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