When I was younger, I used to believe that love was the hardest emotion to grasp. There was a timeline to love, it took months, sometimes even years for people to be able to say I love you. It took time for you to build up that courage to say the three most impactful words you could to someone. But as I get older, I've found that sometimes love isn't measured in time, but rather in moments.

It was my sister who was actually the first person who told me that love is made all too complicated by people. Loving is an easy emotion to feel for others, it's falling out of that love that requires work.

So very often I've watched as the people around me tip-toed around the L word as if what stood at the end of saying it would be too much to handle. And maybe it is too much for some people to handle. We don't realize that love requires work, love requires passion.

Often more times than not, we think that we can only be passionate for things in our lives. Whether it be for sports, materials, or the arts. We're willing to work so hard for these parts of our lives that aren't guaranteed to be there tomorrow. So why aren't we willing to be this passionate for the people in our lives?

So I challenge you, to become passionate about people. Don't be afraid to tell them you love them. Don't be afraid to give someone all you have. Because it's when the passion stops, it's when the effort stops that we begin to lose the best parts of our lives. And love is too good of an experience to let pass you by. So I'm telling you when love comes knocking, answer it because it may just change your world.