Love.

My oh my, boy has this subject been ever so present on my mind lately. It has always been something I didn't understand and could never wrap my head around. What is Love? How do you know when you love someone or are in love with someone? What does it feel like? What is the experience like? These questions boggled my mind for the longest time. For the past year, I have had the opportunity to learn so much about this personal and meaningful topic. I guess it was one of those experiences that you look back on and realize how much you learned and had grown as a person. You're able to evaluate all the emotions and feelings you went through during that time. As I have done so, I realized that I experienced..love. And not just that, but my first romantic "true" love as they say. Gosh, does this make my heart melt or what! Gordon B. Hinckley once stated, "True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion." So why am I talking about something that would be considered "personal" to others? I don't know. I guess I have just felt the need to write and express my thoughts about this. It makes me so happy to think back on it and I long for it again. It helped me to grow as a person and into a maturing young adult. I think about it so often now-a-days and love has almost become..mysterious to me. You can't describe it, you just know it when you feel it and it grows over time. I am so grateful to have experienced this, so grateful it just makes me want to cry thinking about it! This person showed me some of the happiest times in my life to this day. They become your best friend and you don't want to skip a beat without them. You also learn to love them not only for their perfections, but imperfections as well. You make mistakes together, but in the end, love is all about lifting each other up and molding ourselves into the best we can be. This person also taught me so much about this and I still learn and grow everyday as I think back onto the experiences and memories we have together. I may be 18, but I know that what I have experienced is love. Love is happy. Cherish the moments because you don't know what you got 'till it's gone.
                     With Love,
                             Dee