Love is in the Air
Did we know how it was to be in love before our first love?
We had some idea about the feelings associated with being in love from the movies we watched, the love songs we listened to, the stories we heard and the relationships we observed around us. We knew that we might have butterflies in our stomach. We might be head over heels. Our eyes might be for our only one true love.
We might have gotten those clues from bands like Led Zeppelin. In the song “Since I Have Been Loving You,” Robert Plant sang, “But baby, since I have been loving you, I am about to lose my worried mind.”
We knew that love is powerful and could change us as Aretha Franklin sang, “I used to feel so uninspired, and when I knew I had to face another day… You make me feel like a natural woman.”
We knew that love is in the air when we sang along with John Paul Young. We looked for love when he sang “Love is in the air. Everywhere I look around. Love is in the air. Every sight and every sound.” Maybe we looked deeper when the nature reminded of love especially in the spring.
We listened to Elvis Presley asking” “Love me tender. Love me sweet. Never let me go. You have made my life complete, and I love so” from his heart to ours.
Watching “The Notebook,” adapted from the novel by Nicholas Sparks, we might have secretly cried when Noah (Ryan Gosling) told Allie (Rachel McAdams), after a boat ride on a lake on a bright day that could not conceal the tension of a seven-years-long unrequited love, that he wrote 365 letters to her, one every day for a year, while she never received a single one. Maybe we cried more in the next scene when they kissed in the pouring rain on a darkening gray evening and let their tears flow.
When we had similar sparks with potential loves, we kind of knew what to expect from what we gathered about being in that state, but we also knew that our experience might be different – might not be close to the ideals in the movies. If we let ourselves trust the relationship and relinquished control of it, we might live our own versions of being in love. What we collected about being in love from external sources might enrich our experience instead of dictating it.
How do you describe yourself when you are in love? Is the way you express your feelings related to what you learned about being in love? Is there a song, a movie, a book or a person that comes to your mind when you think of yourself as being in love? How does your heart feel about that? Please share your experience, thoughts and feelings in the social media chats or here in the comment box. Happy Spring!
