May 06, 2009 17:20
So tomorrow, I'm going in early to get lasers in my eyes. It is as cool as it sounds, but not in the way that it sounds. Since I was 13 years old, I've had to wear glasses. Tomorrow, if everything goes as planned, that will no longer be the case. Yeah, I am pretty excited about it. I've wanted to do it for years, but the money was never there or something else came along to make the money that was there disappear. It would not be possible even now for me alone, but Melissa decided to make it possible. We paid off the "HUGE" TV in record time. We are good on bills and thanks to tax returns and bonuses from her work, I get...lasers in my eyes...and all of this is a round about way of saying how absolutely awesome my soon-to-be wife is.
So I give you some of my favorite quotes on love.
"You know you're in love when reality is finally better than your dreams." -Anonymous
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." -Robert Heinlein
"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin. "