So love at first sight, fact or fiction?
What the hell. How can anyone even ask such a question?
Clearly whoever is asking has ever been in or experienced love. Not lust, I want your body now kinda stuff, though that is a factor. I'm talking about the real thing.
You know where you find it hard to think clearly. At least about anything besides him. The craving for a single look, longing of a smile, the yearning of a soft gentle touch. The feeling of being 10 feet off the ground. Surreal, like an out of body experience, though not that I know what that feels like either. You're flying above everyone else. Somehow not quite connected to the rest of the human race, because you are experiencing something that the rest of them, everyone else cannot even begin to imagine. You are in the moment, the now. The past and the future have no impact, they cannot touch you. The shear power of the emotion makes all else fall from you like water. And oh the smile. That grin from ear to ear. You know the silly one you just can't seam to wipe off you face. You are having the best day ever of your whole existence, and you know that you're rubbing it in everyone's face, with that stupid grin. But you just can't help it. You couldn't wipe it off it you wanted to. And you don't, want to. You should feel guilty about it, making them all suffer around you, but you don't. And you don't feel bad that you don't either. So confusing to others, so plain to you. The glory, the joy of being in and being loved.
That's what I'm talking about. How can any fool think that such a thing could just happen? You cannot just know from a fleeting glance at someone. That kind of stuff takes time. Right? I know guys can see a girl and want to jump in her pants, but that is not the same thing. Don't get me wrong there is something real fun about a NCMO (non-committal make out). There is a time and place for everything. But you don't get any connection from a NCMO, not if you're doing it right. Well at least that's what I've been told. Being to much of a chicken I wouldn't rightly know.
So you cannot know for sure, just by seeing someone, once or twice or even a few times, that you are in love. It just doesn't happen. There is no magic wand or fairy godmother going around "Bling, you're in love". Cupid is not shooting arrows at unsuspecting bystanders.
True love is friendship caught on fire. It grows from something, it does not just happen.
Unless it was waiting for you.