best friday five ever!

1. How many times have you truly been in love?

countless. that is what first popped into my mind, anyway.

if i sit to think about it, i'd probably babble on about being in love in that moment, even if now i realize i didn't know what love was at that time. but i don't like that answer, so i retract that and will stick with my automatic response... countless times. sometimes with a boy. sometimes with a girl. sometimes with the way my hair falls around my face. i fall in and out of love with everything that i interact with. and i wouldn't have it any other way.

2. What was/is so great about the person you love(d) the most?

he lets me go crazy.

he realizes that love is something that, although shared between two people in the conventional sense, really is an individual emotion that can never truly be understood by anyone except yourself. and the love i have for him... it's something so overwhelming and scary that i cannot help but get swept away with it... whether or not he is holding my hand at the time.

and he puts up with that. i think he might even like it.

3. What qualities should a significant other have?

depends on the person... and how significant that other is to that person.

if you mean what qualities do i envision my significant other having... i don't really know if that is a fair question to ask. the only safe answer to that one (in attempts of not disappointing yourself) if that the person should be willing and excited to grow and change with you. people seem to want a packaged love relationship that needs to stay the same in that romantical sexual tension period. i guess i just don't want someone who wants that.

4. Have you ever broken someone's heart?

yes. i have broken quite a few. some repeatedly. never intentionally or maliciously though. i don't mind talking about the incidents either.

the surprising part of this answer is that i have probably broken the hearts of far more women than men. and while i don't regret the endings and their tragedies... i am beautifully marked and scared forever by the hurt i may have caused.

5. If there was one thing you could teach people about love, what would it be?

it is everything.

well, that and... love is not some cookie cutter thing that can be described in books or movies or poetry. love is an individual and unique bond that is never the same between two people. it comes in many forms and really does not need the returning affections to be valid.

love is growing and yearning and a constant need of the heart. like air to lungs.