To fall in love

I’ve fallen in love many times in my life, not only with the partners I’ve chosen to be with.
There are different kinds of love; the love of a city, the love of a song, but I am referring to falling in love with people.

At this point I guess some readers may take a negative perspective; that falling in love regularly and with people who are say married or of a certain gender or life-situation is in poor taste and somehow either promiscuous or disrespectful. It’s difficult to explain, I can only say that it is not that kind of love, though it’s something very much like it. I believe we can fall in love with each-other while still respecting the closure of a partnership and not intruding upon it; indeed we can fall in love with both people in a partnership and not intrude upon it. It takes a little bit of a shift in how we think about love, it’s something deeper, and something that intones more respect and more accountability. Hopefully by now we are all adult and mature enough to think beyond purely sexuality.

I have fallen in love with people simply by the way they speak, their intonation and unique lilt of speech. Be it musical or poetic, the way the person expressed himself was beautiful. It made me want to listen to anything he had to say.

I’ve fallen in love with a woman for her playfulness and posture, which seemed to be at odds, perhaps it was that which enchanted me. Her stance was always one of beauty, the set of her legs, hips, back, the tilt of her head, yet she was of a playful and cheerful character. I imagined that she would be someone with which I would love to have a partnership, to explore and indulge in the intimacies of her body and the pleasure of her playfulness.

I’ve fallen in love with someone’s quiet and introverted manner. It spoke volumes to me of touches in the dark, of slow, purposeful caresses, long kisses and lips touched against skin.

I wonder who has fallen in love with me in this life. I delight in the idea that we are all captivated by one-another at some point in life, that we take the opportunity, no-matter how brief, to fall in love with someone because something about them is beyond beautiful. Some of us join in union with only one other person with the hope to stay unified until the end of life, and some of us I think are truly destined to have beautiful and meaningful encounters that begin and end. Life is so diverse, there is more than one way for all of us to live. As-well as falling in love, I’ve experienced great heartbreak, but as I continue to live and learn, I understand that it too is a part of falling in love, that heartbreak is the exact same love expressed with a different energy. I’m beginning to understand now the ideas of many people who have lived before me that say that they never truly stop loving the people they’ve loved through life, and I find that to be one of the most beautiful facets of all about falling in love.