Love Is A Verb

Love is not a one-time thought or feeling.

Its a continual action, continual choice, continual promise to another person.

Love is a verb.

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To loveis to do, to feel, to become.

Love is not passive, or still.

Love is continual movement and change and growthadapting to fit, making space in your heart for someone else.

But as humans we make so many damn excuses.

We become infatuated with someone.

We fall for the physical.

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So we spin ourselves in circles around people until were dizzy.

We put all our heart into a connection before we even know where its going.

But the truth is, were just lying to ourselves.

We confuse lust and infatuation with the real thing.

We mistake giddiness for commitment.

We run before we can experience anything meaningful.

Loving someone is hard.

Not the unconscious feeling.

Not the way your heart seems to know, seems to belong with someone else.

Not the way you smile without thinking, or kiss with the entirety of your body and soul.

Because love is not a one-time thought or feeling.

Its a continual action, continual choice, continual promise to another person.

Love is a verb.

Love is walking away from people and things that hinder who you two have the potential to become.

Love is movementtowards one another, even through the chaos of this life.

Love is activesearching for ways to be closer, to understand, to meet halfway.

To love is to do.

Tochoose one another, and never stop.