Love Changes Everything

For all the less than girly things about my personality I am to the core a helpless romantic. There is nothing better than a man who opens doors for you and does all those little things that shows he cares specifically for you.
In the past I wouldn’t have included the “L” word in that list of things. Those three little words were always so over used and quick to be spoken before the real meaning was really pondered. In some cases it was something merely said when the other person was angry or right before hanging up the phone so really it was nothing more that just three… little… words.
Yet it’s these three little words that have also set me free. He was eloquent when he said it wasn’t puppy love that this has been earned between us. The “L” word was given when the heart was truly ready and with full knowledge of the other person’s quirks and faults. Time has only made us closer and more understanding I think, which is new for me. Everything else of my past relationships has crumbled or faded with time. With him, a year and a half later, I still feel that spark.
As with everything else that has happened with this certain someone, it’s as if everything that I’ve been put through or have done in the past has prepared me to really appreciate him and what we have. When others doubted me and gave me advice that would have swayed me in the past, I instead chose to listen to my heart. What we have has allowed me to grow as a person rather than hold me back. What we have has allowed me to see clearly both myself and my needs. What we have has shown me that I can choose to be with someone, not feel I have to be with someone.
Nothing is perfect and I have no delusions of grandeur, but Love does change everything.


Love Changes Everything
By Andrew Lloyd Webber

Love, love changes everything
Hands and faces, earth and sky
Love, love changes everything
How you live and how you die
Love, love can make the summer fly
Or a night seem like a lifetime

Yes love, love changes everything
How I tremble at your name
Nothing in the world will ever be the same

Love, love changes everything
Days are longer, words mean more
Love, love changes everything
Pain is deeper than before
Love will turn your world around
And that world will last forever

Yes love, love changes everything
Brings you glory, brings you shame
Nothing in the world will ever be the same

Off into the world we go
Planning futures, shaping years
Love (comes in) and suddenly all our wisdom disappears
Love makes fools of everyone
All the rules we made are broken

Yes love, love changes everyone
Live or perish in its flame
Love will never never let you be the same
Love will never never let you be the same