I’ve been reading a lot of poetry recently, which has me in a loveable mood so I want to share with you a rather personal part of my life. A little over a year ago I fell in love with a girl. She’s absolutely beautiful, but my favorite thing about her is that she is completely unpredictable. Just when I think I have her all figured out, she goes and does something totally outside of herself and sends me into a complete whirlwind.

For example, when I first met her she was totally an “I need it to be planned out” kind of girl. I’m talking we couldn’t even make a surprise trip to the grocery store without it being planned out with a list written and an exact date and time we were going to go. I was sure that this was “just how she is.”

Then one night I rolled over and looked at her and said, “I’m not ready for bed yet” she smiled and said, “Neither am I.” She asked me what I wanted to do and I offered that we could just go for a drive. (We did this quite often. Just drive around with the windows down and listen to music.) She asked me where I wanted to go, and I jokingly said “The mountains.” She looked at me with complete seriousness and just said, “Okay, let's go.” We got up, threw a pair of clothes in a book bag, and took off to the mountains at midnight.

We got there at about 3 in the morning, found a little hotel, slept for about four hours, woke up, hiked to the top of the mountain, and drove home. Just when I thought she was an “I need it to be planned out” kind of girl, she did the most spontaneous thing that she could think of. I fell in love with her all over again.

I realized a long time ago that I needed this girl in my life. I thrive off of her, I really do. Through hell and back, I’ve always stuck to that. I’ve been cautious of who I let get close to me, very easily cutting people out at the first red flag I see. But this girl… this girl changed everything for me. I have no idea how she managed to pull it off, but she has me believing in her so hard. With everything I have, I would put it all on this girl.

I didn’t know this kind of love existed. The kind of love that even when she hurts my feelings, or she doesn’t put away the dishes when she said she would, I still want to just pick her up and kiss her. She’s my best friend in the whole world. Everywhere I go, anything i'm doing, I’m thinking about this girl.

This girl is the love of my life.