Do You Believe in Love at First Sight?
No, not love exactly. You must know someone, truly know them, in order to love them properly. Otherwise what you’re feeling is just attraction or infatuation. There’s nothing wrong with either of those things. Eru knows, they’re both delightful and should be explored. But love is something other than just physical attraction or infatuation. The first is just… well… bodies being bodies, as my Mum used to say. It’s good and natural, but it isn’t love.
Infatuation is all about what might be. It’s about beginnings and exploring and getting to know the one you’re so keenly attracted to. Those things are fifes and drums and trumpets and fireworks, but they aren’t love.
Love is something other. It’s quiet, but deep and steady as a mountain stream. Love is when you understand your beloved for who he or she truly is, good and bad, and you and still hold them dearer than any other. It’s a fiddle tune that only you and your beloved know because you’re making it up together. Every day you’re together you add to the melody until the song is deep in your heart.
Love is a blanket that you and your beloved knit together. One thread is Attraction, one thread is Infatuation, but one thread is Understanding. Time and Trust are the needles you use to knit those threads together into Love. If you don’t have the understanding that only time and trust can give you, then your thread won’t hold and you’ll just tear apart.
So, no, I don’t believe in love at first sight.
Muse: Diamond Took
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Infatuation is all about what might be. It’s about beginnings and exploring and getting to know the one you’re so keenly attracted to. Those things are fifes and drums and trumpets and fireworks, but they aren’t love.
Love is something other. It’s quiet, but deep and steady as a mountain stream. Love is when you understand your beloved for who he or she truly is, good and bad, and you and still hold them dearer than any other. It’s a fiddle tune that only you and your beloved know because you’re making it up together. Every day you’re together you add to the melody until the song is deep in your heart.
Love is a blanket that you and your beloved knit together. One thread is Attraction, one thread is Infatuation, but one thread is Understanding. Time and Trust are the needles you use to knit those threads together into Love. If you don’t have the understanding that only time and trust can give you, then your thread won’t hold and you’ll just tear apart.
So, no, I don’t believe in love at first sight.
Muse: Diamond Took
Fandom: Lord of the Rings