Don't know how love's like but I have fallen for someone, or at least had a strong crush.
It was intoxicating, way I would describe it. Like a carrot of a future filled with purpose and connection dangling in front of my head, beckoning me to each new day with vigor and joy.
I truly wished to wake up then, each day just another excuse to spend more time reflecting on my situation and feelings, on that person, who they are and what they mean to me, how I may connect with them further, do something for them.
Any excuse to spend more time immersing oneself into their inner world would be taken, listening to their feelings and history akin to the most enrapturing of tales.
It's when you look at the world through their eyes that magic happens, your views expanded by this feeling of longing, of relation to them.
I'd go so far as to say it was the first moment I've ever truly related to a person, felt a sense of empathy so deep they felt as if my own. It shouldn't have been, the realization is rather sad, but it's what got me longing for connectivity in general.
I wish I'd never lost that feeling but, oh well, life goes on.
