The One

Throughout the years of my life, I have always heard people in love or people that are married say that they knew as soon as they met their significant other that they were "The One". That continually baffled me and I guess that's because it had never happened for me personally. But what I do know just from life's experience is that love is easy, if in fact, it's true. Love is comfortable and comforting. Love doesn't want to change you because it's happy with who you already are and it trusts you because it trusts itself. Love communicates with you because talking to someone you honestly love is like talking to your best friend. You can be your honest, gully, true, sarcastic, pessimistic, optimistic, mean, irritable, loving, affectionate, goofy, nerdy, hurt, disappointed, frustrated, weird self and love will still love you! However, to have people say that they knew from the door upon meeting a person that they were "The One", well that just sounds like it's impossible because love is something that grows with time. And me, well, I love HARD but I used to just love "in the moment", whereas now, I love for reasons of veraciously loving! It's an utterly refreshing feeling for me at this stage in my life. It helps me to see how far I've come as an individual and it also assists me in making transparent those that aren't "love mature". I love my life, past and present, for grooming me into the woman I've become, continuing to teach me new things about myself and those around me everyday, and mostly for granting me the courage to learn and desire to grow until the day that I die!
All of this talk about love reminds me of a conversation I had with my grandfather after the passing of my grandmother some 5 or 6 years ago. They had been married some 50+ years by the time she had died and I asked my grandfather the very question of, how he knew that my grandmother was "The One"? His response was one that I will NEVER forget! He said, "Well Doll Baby, you know how a slot machine goes off when you win at the casino with all the bells and whistles? Love is kinda like that except you're the only one that hears the bells and whistles!"
So, I don't know about you BUT I'm pulling the lever to see what happens!
Let Go, Let God, Love!