50 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT LOVE, RIGHT THIS MINUTE, BASED ON THE PAST FEW WEEKS BUT, MORE PARTICULARLY, THE PAST FEW DAYS

1.  It really does sweep you off your feet.
2.  It leaves you shaking your head, waiting to “come to.”
3.  It’s best when it shows up in someone you would never expect.
4.  It’s best to take it slow and savor every moment.
5.   Then again, what could be bad about letting it have its way?
6.   It refuses to be controlled.
7.   It’s so delicious that lust, loneliness and desperation try it on as a costume and go out trick-or-    treating.  They eventually get caught red-handed.  
8.   There is no forcing it.
9.   It has no rhyme or reason.
10.   It makes even the dreariest of Ithaca days irrelevant.
11.   It challenges me to stay present to the moment.
12.   It challenges me to stop analyzing.
13.   It’s cause for great celebration.
14.   It challenges my sense of worthiness.
15.   It can really only be experienced, not described.
16.   It tells me to make a beeline to Victoria’s Secret.
17.   It inexplicably causes me to revert to acting like a 15-yr-old.
18.   It allows for minimal sleep.
19.   It's the essence of life.
20.   It's all that and then some.
21.   It brings my various issues right up to the surface.
22.   Which is a good thing, really....
23.   It's necessary to take breaks from it to discover subversive talent on YouTube.
24.   It’s complicated.
25.   It’s simple.
26.   It provides for hours of playlist making on iTunes.
27.   It craves expression.
28.   It causes the windows of creativity to fly open.
29.   It’s best to write a poem about it when you wake up at 3 a.m. and can’t go back to sleep.
30.   It’s in the details.
31.   It says there are no details, it is just that which it is.
32.   It is philosophical.
33.   It's inane.
34.   It's hysterical.
35.   It's the agony; it's the ecstasy.
36.   It can make those around you want to vomit.
37.   It’s an elevation of consciousness.
38.   It goes against “The Rules.”
39.   It laughs in the face of “The Rules.”
40.   It’s better for your heart than a bowl of oatmeal.
41.   It’s a disco dance.
42.   It’s the cha-cha, a waltz, the charleston.
43.   It’s being moved to tears on a regular basis.
44.   It’s driving in the car with all the windows rolled down.
45.   It’s like a million iridescent butterflies alighting on your heart all at once.
46.   It can’t be saved up for a rainy day 
47.   It’s sitting for hours on the couch and realizing that you would be blissfully happy to stay there for  days.  
48.   It really is the end all and be all.
49.   The Beatles were right.
50.   It’s all I’ve ever wanted.