I know I'm in LOVE
Phases of life are often hard to adapt to, I know most of my phases were pretty hard to adapt to. But gradually, you embrace them. Gradually, it gets better in time.
I met a boy few years ago, and we were closed friends. We’d go to watch movies together, and I would accompany him whenever he fled school. Budak baru masuk university, ponteng lecture/tutorialh cool apa? But gradually, we grew apart. Naturally, like most friendships grew distant when the other has this little ‘intimate relationship’ going on, we grew apart.
I didn’t get to hear stories of how he fell in love. I wasn’t really there when he went through one of the darkest chapters in his life. I turned a deaf ear.
Today, after many distant, quiet gaps, I met him over coffee. And I saw a boy I once knew, growing into a guy I hardly even know. He’s in love. Clearly, I have been missing for a long time. And because of what? Because of this little thing called, ‘love’.
Like seasons, phases come and go. Sometimes the people you were with a couple years ago appear back after much silence. The beautiful part about this is how they are able to put the past behind, and accept you for who you are.
When asked, “How would you know you’re in love?”
He simply answered, “When you wanna be with a specific someone every single minute you can and nothing else matters.”
It is funny how love is always the primary essence in life – the one that would bring people together, and also the one that would make people grow apart. Gradually, it gets better in time. Because naturally, people grow from it.
But if you ask me, how would you know if you’re in love?
I would say, “Your head completely shuts off and your heart speaks a million languages, amplified at the maximum volume. The logic of love does not imply, you risk because you know what you feel matters more than of what you think.”
So..?
Are you in love?
