by Krystle Murillo

Created on: May 11, 2008

One day I met a woman. And now I believe in love at first sight.
Almost everyone has experienced it, but very few people can understand it. It happens when you meet a person for the first time and you know you want them to be part of your life forever. Or when a first-time mother-to-be or father-to-be is afraid they won't be able to love the child they're about to have, and then all that anxiety is forgotten when they hold their baby in their arms for the first time. Or even when someone decides to get a puppy but they have no clue what kind to get, then they walk into the pet store and see those big puppy dog eyes looking at them and they know which dog they want. From the outside it seems superficial, but as you are experiencing it you know it is very powerful.

Love is a complicated emotion, so it's easy to assume that it is something that must develop over time. And occasionally, if not most of the time, it does. But if you think about it, not many people ponder over the people in their lives on a regular basis, considering their faults and good qualities, and deciding who is worthy of their love. For the most part, it's a feeling that you just find there, and you become aware of it because the person you love says something or does something, or you do something for them which makes you realize how you feel about them. In reality, at some point you don't love a person, and then the very next moment you do. Most of the time the feelings were there all along, it just took a while to realize them. But it's the same idea: You fell in love at first sight. It just happened to be the twentieth time you saw the person.

It usually takes time to love another person because it takes time to get to know a person. People, however, have adapted in such a way that they express a lot about themselves in a short amount of time. We call this body language, and it is very helpful in getting to know someone quickly.
One day I met a woman. She was going through a rough time and she was asking me for some small assistance. She looked me in the eyes. She held her head up high the whole time she was talking to me. She shook my hand. She is proud and determined and strong and willful. I don't know her name or anything about her other than what she told me in that short conversation we had that night. But now I believe in love at first sight.

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