Opening up your heart to someone isn't always the easiest thing to do, but giving your heart to someone is about a million times harder. Love is an interesting thing, so many people have so many different definitions of love that it's hard to tell when it's really happened to you. It always sneaks up in its own way. It can hit you like an unexpected fast ball, or it can take nearly your whole life to creep up on you when you have lost all hope of ever falling in love. One thing to always remember, that I found out the hard way though, is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone. You can love your best friend with an unconditional kind of love that will never fade...the kind of love that tells you he or she always has and always will be there for you. Then there is that special kind of love the kind that is not only emotion, but action. The kind you feel when that special someone has crept or pushed their way into your life. The kind of love that has hit me early in life. You can tell someone or someone can tell you that you don't know what love is, you're too young, you have no clue the depths or hurts involved with real true love. It's all false. You can have that special kind of love at 13 up until the day you die, even then you might not know the exact definition of what love is, but just because you can't explain it, doesn't mean you can't feel it. Xoxo *linds