I listened to love songs, read love quotes, watched movies and dramas with a lot of love in it, and I wonder, is it possible for me to fall in love or love someone that passionately and deeply, that makes me go crazy, unreasonable, and just too obsessed with that person? I haven’t felt that way towards anyone before. Yes I have liked, loved and lusted, but not that desperately and certainly still with my head on my shoulder. Am I even capable of feeling such feelings? Or do I even want to have such feelings? Sometimes I wonder.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love” which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.”
-St. Augustine

Will someone ever make me feel that way?

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