Life is just one of those things

Warning: The following passage may sound quite mushy or too romantically old-fashioned for your taste.
But I forge ahead. =)

Below is said to be one of the loveliest summations of what love is written by Arthur Gordon:   

“Love… is a shining thing, like a golden fire or a silver mist. It comes very quietly; you can’t command it, but you can’t deny it either. When it does come, you can’t quite see it or touch it, but you feel it –inside of you and around you and the person you love. It changes you; it changes everything. Colors are brighter. Music is sweeter. Funny things are funnier. Ordinary speech won’t do – you grope for better ways to express how you feel. You read poetry. Maybe you even try to write it… Oh, it’s so many little things. Waltzing in the dark, waiting for the phone to ring, opening the box of flowers. It’s holding hands in a movie; it’s humming a sad little tune; it’s walking in the rain; it’s riding in a convertible with the wind in your hair. It’s quarreling and making up again. It’s the first drowsy thought in the morning and that last kiss at night."

After musing on this bit, I realized I like the idea that love is "so many little things," the little things that are so ordinary, so mundane, and so routine that oftentimes we choose to take them for granted.
When we learn that love can be special, even extraordinary in the simplest, most ordinary of ways, we find that everyday gives away lovely, to-be-treasured memories wrapped up like gifts for us to open and enjoy.

It’s so many little things..
it’s having a silly conversation.. 
or being immersed in deep discourse..
being inspired to strum a melody..
it’s laughing endlessly..
it’s squabbling over the same ol’ things..
it’s getting the everyday hugs and the habitual late night calls..
it’s listening to soft jazz tunes..
it’s reading between the lines..
it’s saying sorry and meaning it..
it’s forgiving ceaselessly..
it’s dreaming with reckless abandon..
it’s driving home under the star-stewn heavens..

-Lucidreamer

(digital polaroid by me)