I'm all about love.

Love is on my mind tonight, so please have patience with me. With friends getting married and other friends in love, I just feel the need to write something about it.

Actually, I have a lot of friends who are in love, and one is freshly married. I have one friend in particular tonight that I want to write just a little bit about. She has had other boyfriends who she's been fairly crazy about, but never have I heard her as happy as she is now. I get off the phone with her and /I/ walk away smiling. I have never felt happy for somebody like this before. What is that all about? They are just so good for each other, and so equal is every regard. She doesn't think so, but I know so. They are a little bit in love, and I can't wait to see what becomes of it. Who knows, maybe I'll let this boy be her best friend someday.

(Tangent ahead! Beware!)

I am just amazed at how incredible love is. Love is the ultimate source of happiness, and really there is no true happiness without it, but it can also be so painful. Christ is the perfect example of love, and of course the gospel is based on the foundation of love. We all know that charity itself is the pure love of Christ. It makes sense that we all crave love, and we all crave giving love away. I think that love is just one of those things that we will continually learn about throughout our lives, and that we may never fully understand, - at least in this life. Right now I am just so grateful for love. I have such an amazing family that I absolutely adore, and for some strange reason they seem to adore me right back. My friends, also! I have the best friend in the entire world. I also have some deep love for this earth, which I will most likely post about more fully in the future (because I am absolutely in love with it). And dance! That is another thing. Heavenly Father gave me all of these things because /He/ loves me, too. I am so surrounded by love that it seems almost tangible. I can practically feel the air around me full of it. Isn't that just incredible?

(Tangent continued...)

Someday it would be really nice to find somebody who will be my best friend (with the permission from Best Friend), and love me for always. That's a crazy concept for me now, but I have such hope that it will happen. Call me crazy, but I know that it will be one of the greatest loves in history. Not perfect by any means, but it will be so patient and full of hope and growth. A lot of people seem to settle in marriage, which I think is so sad, but maybe they just never had that dream or that much hope for something better. There are some marriages that I see that just astonish me. They are based on love and respect, honor, patience, kindness... They are best friends. Literally, best friends! I hope for that someday. I just can't settle for less. Right now I'm just trying to be the kind of person that I would love to marry, so that maybe he will want to marry me, as well. Luckily I have plenty of years ahead of me before I need to worry about actually making that decision. Phew!

Love. Yes, I love love. And like my best friend, I'm all about love.