Ever Changing Love

When you're young, your idea of love is big.

You picture fairy tales so epic, they could be written into chart-topping Taylor Swift songs.

Your first kiss feels like an electric current that runs through your veins and singes the insides of your eyelids so that every time you close them you can't help but remember how it felt.

The first time you have sex you swear that you're "making love" and revel in the idea that you've finally been seen by someone. And you'd never tell them this, but sometimes it feels like you want to unzip their skin and cuddle their bones because you just can't get close enough.

When they go away for a week on their family vacation it feels like forever, and your reunion seems like something out of a movie. You run to each other in the falling snow and when they lift you in their arms you're sure everything is moving in slow motion. Their skin is the same it's always been and yet, it's the best it's ever smelled and you know you have to make this night last forever.

When you get older, love gets smaller, but that's okay.

You see it in the way they have your tea ready in the morning, made just the way you like it with way too much sugar.

You feel it when you share your millionth kiss before you leave for work, when they're rushing to catch the train but still stop at the front door because the day just wouldn't feel right without it.

You know it's there even when the fancy date night ends with you both falling asleep in your clothes because you drank too much red wine. And in the morning, you laugh so hard your headaches get worse but you don't mind.

Love is a funny little thing.

A crazy big thing.

A moment or a lifetime.

But always worth it.